/tags/gstreamer/Recent content in Gstreamer on LifeHugoen-usMon, 04 Feb 2008 13:46:00 +0530/post/2008/2008-02-04-xchat-gnome-sound-notification/Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:46:00 +0530/post/2008/2008-02-04-xchat-gnome-sound-notification/<p>Upon quitting Totem, I heard a ping. This came from xchat-gnome (via the sound-notification plugin). It turns out <code>gnome_sound_play</code> was being used to play the sound, which defaults to the ESD backend:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-c" data-lang="c"><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#a6e22e">gnome_sound_play</span>(<span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;../../data/message.wav&#34;</span>); </span></span></code></pre></div><p>ESD has been superseded by <a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">PulseAudio</a> in most major distributions. I would prefer moving to a GStreamer-based backend, so I rewrote the code to use GStreamer. However, the ping still didn&rsquo;t work while I was playing music through Totem.</p>