[maemo-developers] Play sound through Gstreamer while Media Player is running

[From: Stefan Kost]

Andrei Mirestean wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de
> <mailto:ensonic at hora-obscura.de>> wrote:
>
>     Andrei Mirestean wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     > Is there any way to play a sound through Gstreamer while the Media
>     > player is running? I've tried with playbin2 sink but it's now
>     working.
>     now or not?
>
> not working, sorry for the spelling mistake 
>
>      
>
>     If its a kind of notifications sound the policy will allow playing
>     it in
>     parallel. Otherwise the policy kicks in. What are you trying to do?
>
> It's a notification sound. I'm developing the pedometer widget and I
> want to notify the user when he has taken a number of steps.
I'd suggest to use libcanberra for that then.
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/gtkdoc/libcanberra-canberra.html#ca-context-play

Stefan


>     Stefan
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