GStreamer 1.6 Officially Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GStreamer 1.6 Officially Released

We've been looking forward to GStreamer 1.6 and now it's been released...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GStreamer-1.6-Released

[GreatEmerald]

Sigh, and yet I still can't get rid of GStreamer 0.10 due to wxWidgets. (See http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/14976 )

[zanny]

Does gst-1.6 still have that stupid "if any other audio plays mute the sound" thing? It happens in VLC and trunk Clementine. Have a video / audio track playing and produce any other audio, and the audio mutes.

[(tpm)]

Does gst-1.6 still have that stupid "if any other audio plays mute the sound" thing? It happens in VLC and trunk Clementine. Have a video / audio track playing and produce any other audio, and the audio mutes.

I don't think this has anything to do with GStreamer, probably something to do with how your sound system (pulseaudio?) is set up. The fact that VLC which does not use GStreamer has the same behaviour would indicate that. But in any case GStreamer really doesn't actively do anything like that, that kind of policy decision is left up to other parts of the stack.

[ssam]

Does gst-1.6 still have that stupid "if any other audio plays mute the sound" thing? It happens in VLC and trunk Clementine. Have a video / audio track playing and produce any other audio, and the audio mutes.

Its a pulseaudio option that you can disable.

https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/9222/skype-notifications-pause-the-music/?answer=49804#post-id-49804