Because of that, the following gstreamer command fails in hardy:
$gst-launch filesrc location=mysong.mid ! timidity ! alsasink
WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "timidity"
The above command works with wildmidi:
$gst-launch filesrc location=mysong.mid ! wildmidi ! alsasink
But timidity is much more powerful than wildmidi: While both work with the basic sound fonts in the package "freepats", timidity works out-of-the-box with more advanced sound font packages like those in the package "fluid-soundfont-gm".
Therefore, totem, which uses gst-plugins-bad to play midi files, only plays midi files with basic freepats sound fonts through wildmidi, even when fluid-soundfont-gm is installed. Because libgsttimidity.so is absent, in order to enjoy more complex soundfonts like fluid-soundfont-gm, the user must ignore totem and resort to executing timidity directly in the terminal.
Binary package hint: gstreamer0. 10-plugins- bad
The package gstreamer0. 10-plugins- bad 0.10.6-5 in ubuntu hardy 8.04 does not include the plugin libgsttimidity.so webcvs. freedesktop. org/gstreamer/ gst-plugins- bad/ext/ timidity/ gsttimidity. c?view= log)
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required to use timidity as a back-end to play midi files. It only includes the plugin libgstwildmidi.so:
$dpkg -L gstreamer0. 10-plugins- bad |grep midi gstreamer- 0.10/libgstwild midi.so
/usr/lib/
$ gst-inspect|grep midi
typefindfunctions: audio/midi: mid, midi
wildmidi: wildmidi: WildMidi
Because of that, the following gstreamer command fails in hardy:
$gst-launch filesrc location=mysong.mid ! timidity ! alsasink
WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "timidity"
The above command works with wildmidi:
$gst-launch filesrc location=mysong.mid ! wildmidi ! alsasink
But timidity is much more powerful than wildmidi: While both work with the basic sound fonts in the package "freepats", timidity works out-of-the-box with more advanced sound font packages like those in the package "fluid- soundfont- gm".
Therefore, totem, which uses gst-plugins-bad to play midi files, only plays midi files with basic freepats sound fonts through wildmidi, even when fluid-soundfont-gm is installed. Because libgsttimidity.so is absent, in order to enjoy more complex soundfonts like fluid-soundfont-gm, the user must ignore totem and resort to executing timidity directly in the terminal.