Dropping GStreamer 0.1 Support

[Tomasz Wasilczyk]

The new device selection API for gst1 is ready, but we don't use it
yet. I've heard, that most important win32 A/V plugins are ported, but
they don't implement selection API yet.

I think Michael could try to implement this API in Pidgin, but I'm not
sure if it's worth his effort to work on gstreamer plugins source. It
might require just a single day to fix those, though.

Tomek

2015-06-14 6:33 GMT+02:00 Elliott Sales de Andrade <qulogic at pidgin.im>:
> On 13 June 2015 at 23:19, Jorge Villaseñor <salinasv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Tomasz Wasilczyk <twasilczyk at pidgin.im>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I already mentioned that on devel@ conference:
>>>
>>> I don't think we are ready for gst 1.0 yet:
>>> - some features are missing (device selection, maybe others)
>>
>> This looks like is already fixed
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678402
>
> That bug only mentions v4l2 and pulse. What about Windows support for
> the new API?
> I could only find https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732283
> which says it will come "later".
>
>>>
>>> - there might be problems with win32 build (just need to be verified)
>>> - if I remember correctly, gst 0.10/1.0 is bound to specific version
>>> of webkitgtk (or vice versa) - you need to verify which one depends on
>>> which version of another; and again - win32
>>>
>>> There are also constraints on specific webkitgtk versions supporting
>>> Webkit1 API, which is obsolete in favor of Webkit2 API. Ideally, we
>>> could migrate to the latter. I don't know how much effort it takes.
>>>
>>> If we (you) address those issues and ensure our gst 1.x support is no
>>> worse than 0.10, then I will be in favor of dropping it.
>>>
>>> Tomek
>>>
>>> 2015-06-11 23:09 GMT+02:00 Michael McConville <mmcconville at mykolab.com>:
>>> > Hi, everyone.
>>> >
>>> > GStreamer 0.1 hasn't been maintained for a few years and the community
>>> > is trying to get everyone onto 1.0. However, Pidgin 3.0 currently
>>> > supports both versions.
>>> >
>>> > Dropping 0.1 would improve voice/video support, but would break
>>> > voice/video for some long-term support operating system releases. Are
>>> > there any objections to doing so?
>>> >
>>> > There are more details at the bottom of my wiki page:
>>> >
>>> >     https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/mmcco
>>
>>
>> I think we should drop gstreamer 0.1 on pidgin 3. Maybe this regressions
>> should go to michael's GSoC todo list.
>>
>> --
>> Masca
>>
>
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> Elliott aka QuLogic
> Pidgin developer