Comments on: Fluendo webshop updates http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2007/01/12/fluendo-webshop-updates/ GStreamer and Collabora news and more Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:30:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Murray Cumming http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2007/01/12/fluendo-webshop-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-763 Murray Cumming Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2007/01/12/fluendo-webshop-updates/#comment-763 1. The emails from the system are sent from "Christian Schaller ". You probably don't want your actual name in there.<br/>2. To actually download the codec, you need to read the "Order Process" (You probably mean "Order Processed"), email, click on the "Detailed Invoice" link, and then click on the name of the codec under "Download links". Your stylesheet stops the link from being underlined. You'll get a lot of people wondering how on earth to download the thing, failing at various steps.<br/>3. The download is a .tar.bz2 file, with "documentation" and "fluendo-mp3-i386" directories. Bizarrely, the 2 file sin "documentation", (INSTALL and LICENSE) have .MP3 extensions. I don't think that's what you mean. <br/>4. When I open the INSTALL.MP3 file in a text editor, it tells me "copy the<br/>included .so file into $HOME/.gstreamer-0.10/plugins<br/>on your local system. If you have root access you can instead copy it to /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10.".<br/>- I had to create the plugins directory myself, in $HOME/.gstreamer-0.10/.<br/>- This will be too difficult and error-prone for most regular users. I did hope that you would supply packages for major distributions, such as a .deb file that Ubuntu users could just double-click.<p/>The suggested "gst-inspect-0.10 flump3dec" command did seem to succeed. 1. The emails from the system are sent from “Christian Schaller “. You probably don’t want your actual name in there.
2. To actually download the codec, you need to read the “Order Process” (You probably mean “Order Processed”), email, click on the “Detailed Invoice” link, and then click on the name of the codec under “Download links”. Your stylesheet stops the link from being underlined. You’ll get a lot of people wondering how on earth to download the thing, failing at various steps.
3. The download is a .tar.bz2 file, with “documentation” and “fluendo-mp3-i386″ directories. Bizarrely, the 2 file sin “documentation”, (INSTALL and LICENSE) have .MP3 extensions. I don’t think that’s what you mean.
4. When I open the INSTALL.MP3 file in a text editor, it tells me “copy the
included .so file into $HOME/.gstreamer-0.10/plugins
on your local system. If you have root access you can instead copy it to /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10.”.
- I had to create the plugins directory myself, in $HOME/.gstreamer-0.10/.
- This will be too difficult and error-prone for most regular users. I did hope that you would supply packages for major distributions, such as a .deb file that Ubuntu users could just double-click.

The suggested “gst-inspect-0.10 flump3dec” command did seem to succeed.

]]> By: Robert http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2007/01/12/fluendo-webshop-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-764 Robert Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2007/01/12/fluendo-webshop-updates/#comment-764 Drip drip drip go the pennies into the patent farmers' pockets... Drip drip drip go the pennies into the patent farmers’ pockets…

]]> By: joeljkp http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2007/01/12/fluendo-webshop-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-765 joeljkp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2007/01/12/fluendo-webshop-updates/#comment-765 Oh, fabulous, I've been waiting for this for a while. Thank you guys, you're doing great work. Oh, fabulous, I’ve been waiting for this for a while. Thank you guys, you’re doing great work.

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