On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 09:53:38PM EST, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey everyone, > > GNOME said they would try to update their code to use gstreamer 1.0 in 3.6: > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PortToGstreamer1 > > I think there is a couple of issues there: > > - GNOME doesn't give any guarantee it will be done, it might get > half done for 3.6 since it's a best effort basis and having to ship > 2 gstreamer versions wouldn't be a stopper for them > > - gstreamer 1.0 is not released yet (gstreamer 0.11.9x candidate > versions are available though and packaged in precise,quantal > universe) > > - gstreamer 1.0 is virtually untested > > - if we don't want to ship 2 gstreamer stacks in quantal we will > probably have to port some of our code to the new version (ubiquity, > ubuntuone?, ...) as well as help GNOME to finish porting their > softwares > > - there are no fluendo codecs available yet for the new version > (there is an ongoing discussion with them on the topic) > > > Based on that I think we should be conservative and avoid surprise > and extra work (especially that we don't have gstreamer hackers here > to deal with issues we will find) by delaying the update to next > cycle (which probably means staying on current totem and rhythmbox) > > What do others think?
No argument from me. Luke -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
