[vitunes] Recent work: testing & feedback welcome

From: Ryan Flannery <ryan.flannery@xxxxxxxxx>
To: vitunes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:28:46 -0500

Hi list,

Thanks to recent contributions, vitunes now includes support for 256
colors in supported terminals and using gstreamer as a media backend.

256 color support:
This feature has been merged into the master branch at github.  Note
that use of it requires that your terminal support 256 colors and that
your $TERM environment variable is set appropriately (usually to
'xterm-256color', though this may vary based on your terminal
application).  To make use of the extended colors, use the normal
'color' command with colors specified as 'colorX', for X between 0 and
255.  e.g.
    :color bars=color15,red
Work to support specifying the colors as RGB pairs is planned.
Thanks to @ok100 for adding this.  You can see a slick screenshot of his here:
http://vitunes.org/screenshots/ok100-256color.png

gstreamer support:
This feature resides in the gstreamer branch at github.  To build, the
core gstreamer libraries must be installed.  To run, you'll need the
gstreamer plugins required for whatever type of media files you use
with vitunes (the gstreamer -good, -bad, and -ugly plugin packages are
sufficient for most media types).
Note that the default backend is still mplayer.  To run using
gstreamer as the media backend, use
    $ vitunes -m gst
Before merging this with master, I'd like to test this on multiple OS's.
Much thanks to Daniel Walter for adding this support.

You can access the github repository and either clone or download snapshot here:
https://github.com/ryanflannery/vitunes

-Ryan

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