[GEM-dev] shall we release?

[B. Bogart]

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> B. Bogart wrote:
>> Hi Johannes,
>>
>> Does this imply that gem is now working with FLOSS DRI drivers? I have
>> not tested it in some time, but the last time I looked (DRI on my radeon
>> 9600) having PD crash on closing the gemwin would be the least of the
>> problems with using gem with DRI drivers.
> 
> i guess it will be the same as with the intel drivers.
> 
> the only machine with a radeon card ihave access too (running linux) has
> the proprietary ATI drivers installed and they work fine.
> afaik, these drivers are now open-sourced, so you should be able to get
> decent performance (and stability) with ATI-cards.

I'll give it a try when I have time.

FYI last time I looked there were no proprietary linux ppc drivers, so
DRI was the only way to fly. I guess that's what I get for having apple HW.

>> Yes release!!! Will the movie GoSC stuff be in the release?
> 
> no.
> - it's not cross-platform yet.
> - the plugin system doesn't work yet as i would like to have it (the
> only available plugin is still hardcoded in the host-sources; the idea
> was to make it search the paths for available plugins)
> - the only available plugin can only be compiled if you download the
> gstreamer sources yourself (the required headers are not included at
> least under debian and ubuntu)
> - i don't want to wait for yet another feature

Fair enough, I should also give the ol v4l2 input a try again to see if
that is now working on my cx88 cards...

.b.