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

[From: Tuomas Kulve]

Juan A. Suarez Romero wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 23:55 +0100, Thomas Waelti 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
> 
> 
> Really, MAFW is in charge of playing things, not mediaplayer. And MAFW
> is already using playbin2.
> 
> So you only need to configure tracker to index those .ts files in order
> to show them as video files.


Here's how Ogg Support does it:

http://cgit.pingu.fi/repositories/ogg-support/ogg-support.git/tree/debian/ogg-support.postinst?id=1.0.5

-- 
Tuomas