[maemo-developers] Mediaplayer/GStreamer/Tracker: adding new file types?

[From: Daniel Martin Yerga]

Hi.

On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:55:52 +0100
Thomas Waelti <twaelti at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all
> 
> Using gst-launch with playbin2, I'm able to play .ts files on my N900
> from the command line. Is there any way to add this ability to the
> inbuilt mediaplayer? I guess that this involves a few steps, but
> don't know how to achieve that:
> - Get Tracker to index .ts files as video files
> - Configure Mediaplayer to use the correct pipeline for this media
> type
> 
> Any ideas?

To index the files try this (the example is for matroska):
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=358304&postcount=30

And if you have installed the necessary gstreamer module to play the
files, I think that the mediaplayer should be smart enough to use that
module.

Tell us if it works.
-- 
Daniel Martin Yerga
http://yerga.net