winegstreamer: Avoid Fedora and openSUSE?

Marcus Meissner marcus at jet.franken.de
Sun May 24 07:03:02 CDT 2020


On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 07:29:30PM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
> 
> So I ran into an issue 3 years ago where the 32-bit GStreamer plugins 
> are unusable on Fedora and openSUSE despite these distributions shipping 
> the needed 32-bit packages.
> 
> So did anyone manage to get winegstreamer.dll to work for 32-bit Windows 
> applications on Fedora and openSUSE or is it widely known that one 
> should avoid them when using Wine?
> 
> 
> Note that of course I reported this issue to the distributions and this 
> is where you'll find more details about this issue:
> 
> * Fedora
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1472160
>   -> Reported against Fedora 26, then 28, still present in Fedora 32 
>      but fixing this bug seems to have been postponed indefinitely. 
> 
> 
> * openSUSE
>   https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049452
>   -> Supposedly fixed on Tumbleweed 2 years ago but still present on 
>      openSUSE Leap 15.1
> 
>   https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172018
>   -> New bug for openSUSE Leap 15.1.

Tumbleweed and 15.x have divergent codebases for gstreamer...  and I lost
track of this.

I will see that i get this moving towards 15.1/15.2.

Ciao, Marcus



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