The upcoming Fedora and Ubuntu* releases do not include gstreamer0.10 on the default CD. Any chance the build servers have been or could be upgraded to include gstreamer1.0 so we can build for both? Alternatively we could see about including the headers.. Gstreamer is set to be removed from Debian in the stretch release -https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785198. I'm actively working to get it removed from Ubuntu as well. *The exceptions being Kubuntu, Desktop Next (due to qt5.4, removed in qt5.5), Ubuntu Studio, and Edubuntu. All other flavors have no gst0.10. Related bug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82359
+1 for this. Could even the latest version 1.6 be used?
(In reply to Beluga from comment #1) > +1 for this. Could even the latest version 1.6 be used? I don't think so, if we use features from 1.6 it won't work on 1.0-1.4 afaiu. If we use 1.0, it will run fine on 1.0-1.6. Are there features from 1.6 that you want?
(In reply to Bryan Quigley from comment #2) > Are there features from 1.6 that you want? Well, not me, but I posted the 1.6 announcement on Reddit and people commented how they wished 0.10 would be abandoned: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3mkciq/gstreamer_16_released/ I guess 1.0 is enough for the next release.
I'm wondering if we could just use the headers like Mozilla tried to do (they eventually switched to ffmpeg though) - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=973274#c28
Michael: remembering your work about this part some years ago, thought you might have some opinion about it.
In the Debian BTS there is a bug report of 16 May 2013 related to the transition. I hope you can move forward. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717112
Bjoern: since it's related to Ubuntu and derivates, thought you might be interested in this one.
Btw, It appears Debian just finished the removal for the next release. It appears all the Ubuntu CD/DVDs will not have it for 16.04. If we remove it from the archive in 16.04 is still a bit in the air, but a lot of progress has been made.
Well, the first question is how does this play on TDF baseline (as of LibreOffice 5.1, thats CentOS 6: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.1)
(In reply to Björn Michaelsen from comment #9) > Well, the first question is how does this play on TDF baseline (as of > LibreOffice 5.1, thats CentOS 6: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.1) FWICT Only gst0.10 works on centos6 so it should work fine there. Unfortunately, Centos6 doesn't also provide gst1.0 so it wouldn't be able to build a binary for both. Centos7 or Ubuntu 14.04 could provide an environment where it could be built for both gst0.10 and gst1.0.
(In reply to Bryan Quigley from comment #10) > Centos7 or Ubuntu 14.04 could provide an environment where it could be built > for both gst0.10 and gst1.0. Yes, but upstreams baseline is intentionally the most ancient we can manage, so that the upstream binaries can run ~everywhere. Anyway I can take this topic to the ESC.
My instructions from Mozilla should provide some hints to building on CentOS 6: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1122859#c9 Unfortunately building gst1.0 on centos 6 did require glib updates. But this was in a customized Mozilla chroot thingy... Ubuntu 16.04 wast just released with only gst0.10-plugins base and good (dropped ugly and bad). Which means many codecs won't be playable in LibreOffice.
That looks fixed for 5.3
Indeed, nice find. https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=commit;h=df8f994773d96b1be19f8d955b1c95b69bdf054d The only build file that still enabled 0.10 but not 1.0 is OpenBSD. Will see if that can be added too.