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

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Montag, den 06.07.2009, 11:48 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath:
> 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!

Yeah, this is also quite useful for the LADSPA plugin for example :)

> > 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.

It won't recognize added codecs since the registry was built and will
probably fail in some way if a codec was removed.

> > 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).

Yes, if someone has the time it might make sense to create backports of
all GStreamer packages is in unstable for Lenny on backports.org
though :)
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