Question WRT gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (0.10.7.2-2): debian/patches/02_plugin-dependencies.patch

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Mon Jul 6 09:48:58 UTC 2009


Sebastian Dröge schrieb:
> GStreamer plugin dependencies make sure, that the GStreamer registry is
> rebuild whenever the timestamps of the plugin dependencies change, i.e.
> when a new ffmpeg version is installed (which may contain new
> encoders/decoders/etc).

Cool, sounds like a great feature!

> It means that you don't need to force GStreamer to rebuild it's registry
> when the unstripped ffmpeg package is installed (i.e. rm
> ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.*.bin). Instead the ffmpeg plugin will be now
> re-registered whenever the timestamps on the ffmpeg library files are
> changing.

What happens, if I don't force GStreamer to rebuilt its registry? I 
cannot remember having ever removed the aforementioned files on my own.

> No, because the plugin dependency support was added in gstreamer 0.10.22
> and Lenny has only 0.10.19 :(

That's a pity (but also means less work, though).



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