Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 11:59 +0100, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
wrote:
> Hi,
> Well Tim is working on just fixing Totem and gnome-media for 0.10
> and will continue to do so for the next months at the minimum. Up to now
> his progress have been slow due to having to port over plugins for 0.8
> as part of his porting effort, but now that this is mostly taken care of
> he can focus more fully on polishing and hooking up the few remaining
> features in Totem and gnome-media.
> 
> I feel confident we will close the remaining regressions over the next
> month apart from some of the more obscure stuff (like computer game
> movie formats). There are also new stuff that will work with 0.10 which
> have never worked with 0.8 like Real format support and much improved
> MMS/WMA netradio support. 

The problem is that the stuff that used to work doesn't anymore.

And there are over 80 opened bugs against the Totem GStreamer backend,
most of them should be either fixed in Totem, reassigned to GStreamer,
or put on NEEDINFO (against 20 for the xine-lib backend).

> To me the big issue is not comparing the 0.8 vs 0.10 bug count, not that
> there is more bugs currently with 0.10, just different (and easier to
> fix), but which branch will see significant improvements and bugfixes
> going forward. 0.8 is not that branch and if we don't switch now, GNOME
> is stuck with a mostly dead 0.8 branch for the next 6-9 months.
> Currently the only thing happening in 0.8 is the applying of a few
> submitted patches, but no work is being done on the big hard issues,
> like improving the threading problems which causes all the random
> crashes people experience with 0.8 Totem for instance.

Ronald filed about 10 GStreamer backend bugs in Totem. The progress on
those will be a good way to check on the progress for 2.14.

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