[Bug 47618] Required gstreamer plugins not installed by Debian packages

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47618

Jens Reyer <jre.winesim at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Jens Reyer <jre.winesim at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Zebediah Figura from comment #1)
> In some specific cases libmpg123 alone can be used, but in general this
> isn't enough, no. Various applications need different codecs, some of which
> are available in -good, some in -bad, some in -ugly.

Thanks! Can you also comment on "gstreamer1.0-libav"?


> I don't know why the OBS packages don't depend on/recommend these gstreamer
> plugins, but it's probably best that they do. Possibly because they aren't
> multiarch-compatible.

I'm quite sure there is no technical reason, at least for Debian unstable,
today.  But in the past there were probably too many issues, and maintainers
got used to it being not fixable.

Further, contrary to most other dependencies, there is no way to automatically
generate a list of needed gstreamer plugins.

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