Restricted extra/addons

[Amr Ibrahim]

On 02/08/17 14:00, ubuntu-desktop-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3 - hoping we can provide MP3 support by
> default soon like Fedora just did (right?).  Still on track for 18.04
> or can that be pushed up?

I think gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3 is now redundant and could be dropped.

In gstreamer 1.12, mp3 decoding is done by the mpg123 plugin 
(libgstmpg123.so) in gst-plugins-ugly.

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-ugly-plugins/html/gst-plugins-ugly-plugins-plugin-mpg123.html

It is in gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly, which depends on libmpg123-0, and 
pulled in by ubuntu-restricted-addons.

I don't know whether Fluendo (the company) still maintains 
gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3 or not. On the other hand, I can see that 
mpg123 is actively maintained.