Hello, With Qt-5.5 release, the QtMultimedia module was ported to GStreamer-1.0. As one of the last things utilizing GStreamer-0.10 on my system, I decided to purge GStreamer-0.10 from my system and check what else uses it. The answer was: Nothing that's in the book or that requires it.
Only wxgtk-3.0 was using it, but it's optional and nothing else using wxgtk-3.0 on my system uses it. I'll proceed with rebuilding wxgtk-3.0 without gstreamer-0.10 support and purge gstreamer-0.10 from my system. The only important package in BLFS though that still may be using gstreamer-0.10 is Qt4 qtwebkit. I've overcome that issue by disabling the bundled QtWebkit module and using the one from kde.org, which is newer (and safer?) and has gstreamer-1.0 support. http://download.kde.org/stable/qtwebkit-2.3/2.3.4/src/ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elkrejzi/system-management/master/buildscripts/buildqtwebkit4 With this info, it might be worth investigating what else in BLFS relies on GStreamer-0.10 and would it be finally time to nuke it for good. A quick look at BLFS systemd revealed that Pidgin and Tumbler use it optionally, a good amount of packages can utilize either gst-0.10 or gst-1.0, but there's xfce4-mixer that still depends on 0.10. According to the xfce4 release announcement, xfce4-mixer can't be ported to gst-1.0 and isn't maintained anymore: http://www.xfce.org/about/news/?post=1425081600 I guess that's one reason modern desktops depend on pulseaudio - modern gstreamer removed the mixer interface and pulseaudio is the only available option for that. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.
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