Quoting Raymond Wooninck
Hi Listmates,
I know that one of the intentions for openSUSE 13.1 was to get ride of the old version of gstreamer (0.10) and to have only the lastest gstreamer (1.0). At the start of the factory development cycle, this looked ok as that a number of KDE projects started the port to Gstreamer 1.0 as well.
Raymond, I don't have objections of keeping Gst 0.10 in 13.1 (actually, I was expecting this to happen). Mind, there is hardly any maintenance on those packages: upstream simply ignores the 0.10 branch, so whatever breaks, will break for good and forever... In the long run, I'd expect that features will have to be disabled due to dependencies moving forward, possibly with changed APIs (not happened yet; so we're still good).
The current status is however that neither KDE and Qt are fully supporting GStreamer 1.0 and still require the old GStreamer 0.10 version. Even the latest Qt 5.1 still requires GStreamer 0.10 for it's multimedia library. Also from a KDE perspective the Phonon gstreamer backend also still depends on GStreamer 0.10, although theoretically we could switch the default backend to VLC.
Shame to see that even Qt 5.1 did not go with Gst 1.0 / 1.1.x though. After all, it's not that Gst 1.0 would be 'just released last week' now.
I know that this is a burden on the Gnome community team as that they are maintaining the GStreamer packages., but I hope that we can still have both versions in 13.1 so that all desktops can enjoy their respective multimedia functions.
well, as mentioned before: don't expect a lot of changes on those packages... we'll keep them around for now. Best regards, Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org