[PATCH 2/2] winegstreamer: Always run gstreamer callbacks on a Wine thread

[Andrew Eikum]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 02:53:03PM +0100, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
> On 01/12/2016 02:42 PM, Andrew Eikum wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:25:53AM +0100, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
> >> Hello Andrew,
> >>
> >> On 01/11/2016 09:13 PM, Andrew Eikum wrote:
> >>> This gets winegstreamer with gstreamer-0.10 working for me again,
> >>> fixing Bug 30557. However, gstreamer-0.10 is no longer developed and
> >>> some distros don't ship it anymore.
> >> which distros are those? gstreamer-0.10 is still available in Fedora 23.
> > 
> > Yes, Debian most notably.
> > 
> >> I intend to pull this patch (or a version of it) into Stable. But I'd
> >> rather stick with the old gstreamer-0.10 then go to the new API; it is
> >> the smaller change.
> >>
> > 
> > I'm okay with that if you want to, but you will be enabling a DLL that
> > was not enabled before, which can obviously cause regressions. See the
> > "quartz" component in bugzilla (though not all of those are related to
> > winegstreamer).
> Uh? winegstreamer is already enabled, just prone to crashing. By cherry
> picking this change I'm actually fixing it.
> 

I guess in theory. In practice, Arch, Debian, and Fedora all disable
winegstreamer at configure-time. Picking across support for it into
the stable branch might encourage them to build it. Like I said, I'm
not opposed, just be warned.

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/wine

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/wine

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=710361

Andrew