Bug#519226: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg: Segmentation fault with libgstffmpeg.so

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 07:19:04PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mi, 11 Mär 2009, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> > g-s-d is using gstreamer for some reason. If gstreamer needs to update
> > it's registry it will read those files (this should only be necassary
> > after upgrades)
> 
> But for what reasons? I don't see why a settings daemon that actually
> needs to load encoding stuff. It should tell me what is in my settings
> file(s), and nothing else.

Because it reacts on your multimedia keys and can adjust the volume, for which
it uses GStreamer. GStreamers registry of plugins needs to be up to date at all
time irrespective of what you use it for

  Sjoerd
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