Attn Packagers: Dependency change from gstreamer-0.10 to gstreamer >= 1.0

Michael Stefaniuc mstefani at redhat.com
Mon Jan 18 03:20:59 CST 2016


On 01/15/2016 08:40 PM, André Hentschel wrote:
> Am 15.01.2016 um 18:04 schrieb Andrew Eikum:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> The next release of Wine will include a commit which changes our 
>> winegstreamer dshow module to use the modern gstreamer 1.0 API
>> instead of the long-deprecated gstreamer 0.10 API. dshow is used
>> by some games and applications, including Microsoft Office, to
>> display videos and play audio. Wine's winegstreamer allows
>> applications that use dshow to support a wide variety of media
>> through gstreamer.
>> 
>> winegstreamer has been broken for a long time (see Bug 30557),
>> and many distros disable the DLL when shipping Wine. If your
>> distro provides 32-bit gstreamer libraries, then you can now
>> re-enable winegstreamer and expect it to work.
> 
> Nice, will this be ported back to stable?
It depends if there is an interest from distributions.
Anyway it isn't 1.8.1 material so it would get in earliest in 1.8.2.

bye
	michael



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