FS#12103 - gnash-common-ffmpeg

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 13:03 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 04 February 2009, 13:29 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Currently Gnash 0.8.4 depends on GStreamer. This is all well and good for Gnome/KDE users, but due to the way Arch packages GStreamer, it means that quite a lot of gnome dependencies have to be installed if you actually want to play anything. IMHO it would be friendlier to users of minimal environment to use ffmpeg, if possible (and probably friendlier to everyone, since ffmpeg should just play most stuff out of the box).
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 04 February 2009, 13:29 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 15:33 GMT
Wasn't gstreamer the default backend upstream because they have no reliability on API or ABI stability of ffmpeg?
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Friday, 05 December 2008, 10:13 GMT
Maybe we could ask JGC to split gstreamer into more packages (once we have support for that in makepkg). I am not sure if optdepends would work here.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 05 December 2008, 10:27 GMT
When gio becomes stable and the default filesrc used by playbin, I'll add gnome-vfs as optdepend. I won't go the splitting way again, as that raises the workload a lot for packaging GStreamer. Splitting it into a library and an external-dependencies-plugins package like we do now is already extra work, but still doable.

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