I have never been satisfied how mplayer handles video playback on xbmc - i find it particulary slow (especially when parsing subtitles), it crashes often (especially when streaming from the net), doesnt support seeking in streaming videos and supports flv files VERY poorly.
Recently, the Devs of Songird (the Mozilla media player) decided to use the Gstreamer framework as their core for media playing.
Gstreamer plays all major media formats/codecs and has prooved to be very reliable. in addition to that it supports 100% MMS-streaming with seeking. It has also been alreay ported to Windows and OS-X.
And there are Python-Bindings available!
You may wonder (i dont btw) why Songbird devs didnt choose mplayer for that. Have a look at this blog entry.
Having a reliable media core build on GStreamer would also eliminate the need to have a seperate media core for dvd handling (dvdplayer) in XBMC (a concept i never really understood).
Whats your opinion on that?
Recently, the Devs of Songird (the Mozilla media player) decided to use the Gstreamer framework as their core for media playing.
Gstreamer plays all major media formats/codecs and has prooved to be very reliable. in addition to that it supports 100% MMS-streaming with seeking. It has also been alreay ported to Windows and OS-X.
And there are Python-Bindings available!
You may wonder (i dont btw) why Songbird devs didnt choose mplayer for that. Have a look at this blog entry.
Having a reliable media core build on GStreamer would also eliminate the need to have a seperate media core for dvd handling (dvdplayer) in XBMC (a concept i never really understood).
Whats your opinion on that?
