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

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

--- Comment #3 from Zebediah Figura <z.figura12 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Jens Reyer from comment #2)
> (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'm less sure about this one, but I think it's similarly necessary for some
codecs; in particular WMA/WMV comes to mind.

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

For what it's worth, I think it would be possible without too much difficulty
to compile by hand a list of formats that Windows supports natively; we don't
strictly need to provide any others for the purposes of emulation. (On the
other hand, some applications that use quartz are generic media players, and a
user may want to be able to play, say, Ogg audio, which I don't think Windows
supports, using a win32 media player. But then maybe it's their responsibility
to install the GStreamer plugins that they need.)

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