Gstreamer version to use in 12.10?

[Luke Yelavich]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 09:53:38PM EST, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> GNOME said they would try to update their code to use gstreamer 1.0 in 3.6:
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PortToGstreamer1
> 
> I think there is a couple of issues there:
> 
> - GNOME doesn't give any guarantee it will be done, it might get
> half done for 3.6 since it's a best effort basis and having to ship
> 2 gstreamer versions wouldn't be a stopper for them
> 
> - gstreamer 1.0 is not released yet (gstreamer 0.11.9x candidate
> versions are available though and packaged in precise,quantal
> universe)
> 
> - gstreamer 1.0 is virtually untested
> 
> - if we don't want to ship 2 gstreamer stacks in quantal we will
> probably have to port some of our code to the new version (ubiquity,
> ubuntuone?, ...) as well as help GNOME to finish porting their
> softwares
> 
> - there are no fluendo codecs available yet for the new version
> (there is an ongoing discussion with them on the topic)
> 
> 
> Based on that I think we should be conservative and avoid surprise
> and extra work (especially that we don't have gstreamer hackers here
> to deal with issues we will find) by delaying the update to next
> cycle (which probably means staying on current totem and rhythmbox)
> 
> What do others think?

No argument from me.

Luke