the phrygian cap

Can snappy be used as a library, to provide an actor for other clutter scenes? If not, is this something that would be considered?

I was toying with writing a clutter application a while back that would have included video playback with gstreamer. But when I started thinking about all the things necessary to make a good video player, I got discouraged and gave up. But it would be great to be able to add a SnappyActor to the scene and have video playback with controls automatically.

Robert: http://developer.gnome.org/clutter-gst/unstable/

I would recommend to take a look at clutter-gst. But it would be interesting to have such an Actor that would handle typical player needs (seeking, position, volume control, etc...)

Feel free to contact me through email to discuss this further.

Hola Luis.

He tratado de compilar snappy en Ubuntu 10.10, pero al realizar make, me arroja el siguiente error:

CC snappy-utils.o
CC snappy-user_interface.o
user_interface.c: In function ‘position_ns_to_str’:
user_interface.c:547: warning: format ‘%02ld’ expects type ‘long int’, but argument 4 has type ‘gint64’
CC snappy-dlna.o
CC snappy-gst_engine.o
gst_engine.c: In function ‘discover’:
gst_engine.c:167: error: ‘GstDiscoverer’ undeclared (first use in this function)
gst_engine.c:167: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
gst_engine.c:167: error: for each function it appears in.)
gst_engine.c:167: error: ‘dc’ undeclared (first use in this function)
gst_engine.c:168: error: ‘GstDiscovererInfo’ undeclared (first use in this function)
gst_engine.c:168: error: ‘info’ undeclared (first use in this function)
gst_engine.c:169: error: ‘GstDiscovererStreamInfo’ undeclared (first use in this function)
gst_engine.c:169: error: ‘s_info’ undeclared (first use in this function)
gst_engine.c:170: error: ‘GstDiscovererVideoInfo’ undeclared (first use in this function)
gst_engine.c:170: error: ‘v_info’ undeclared (first use in this function)
gst_engine.c:210: error: expected expression before ‘)’ token
make[2]: *** [snappy-gst_engine.o] Error 1
make[2]: se sale del directorio «/home/cristian/Escritorio/snappy-0.2/src»
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: se sale del directorio «/home/cristian/Escritorio/snappy-0.2»
make: *** [all] Error 2

Saludos

cristian, necesitas actualizar tu gstreamer. parece que no tienes GstDiscoverer.

Hi Luis,

Snappy looks good!

Have you heard about Grilo (http://live.gnome.org/Grilo), it allows you to seamlessly retrieve media information from many media providers like YouTube, Vimeo, Jamendo, etc. maybe you wanna consider it for your Snappy media player.

Hope you like the suggestion.

Cheers,

How's it different to MEX? http://blogs.gnome.org/thos/2011/06/01/media-explorer/ for more details

Joaquim, I know about Grilo, I've had chats with some of the developers. I plan to use it, but I can't say when I will get to that item of the ToDo list :) Thanks for Grilo, it is a nice idea.

Peter, MEX wants to be a complete system for HTPC (Home Theater PC), from discovering media, to browsing it, and viewing it. Plus on the mean time experiment and enhance Mx. snappy follows the UNIX philosohpy, do one thing and do it well, just playback. You can assemble a system with any application to grab content (rtorrent perhaps), any application to share/browse that content (could be rygel), and then snappy to view it.

Don't hurt anypony!

Very cool! Unfortunately there is a namespace collision with another project when I "yum search snappy" on Fedora 15:

snappy.x86_64 : Fast compression and decompression library

Nice player, thanks Luis. I've been trying out the MPRIS functionality with snappy 0.2 and rygel 0.11.0. Is it intended that snappy needs to be actively running in order to be recognised as a media renderer? (This is what I am finding). If so, would it be possible to allow to configure snappy as a background service, or at least in a kind of foreground 'idle' mode, always available to be controlled? Once running, I find I can control snappy well with gupnp-av-cp, although remotely starting new clips doesnt always seem to work and things seemed to go a bit wrong with gupnp-av-cp when I closed snappy while it was busy playing back a clip.

Para cuando la siguiente versión?

This player looks very nice!
I see you have frame stepping in changes list, is that forward AND backward?
There are no player on linux capable of backward frame stepping and there is a bad need for it in video production on the platform. Can Snappy be what I've been looking for in the past 5-6 years!?

-"I see you have frame stepping in changes list, is that forward AND backward? "

IT IS! At least for mp4s. I can't get it to work with avi or DNxHD.

This is amazing, I love this player!

Through your blog on planet.gnome.org I read about snappy and gave it a try. You advertise all functions being available through keyboard and mouse, but I cannot find the keybinding anywhere. How to step through a movie frame-by-frame?
And it seems snappy always stops with a segfault, even when closing with 'q' or 'ESC'. And pressign the right-arrow in quickly a couple of time seems to make it crash as well.

Some questions/remarks:
- Can I select which subtitle file to use?
- Supplying '-f' select the wrong aspect ration for me, pressing 'f' while playing a movie gets it right.

Looks nice though, esp. the DLNA integration!

Hi Luis B

Running Ubuntu Oneric 64bit. I got the following error while I'm compiling:

checking for XTEST... no
configure: error: Package requirements (xtst) were not met:
No package 'xtst' found

Any Suggestion.

Thanks