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On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org> wrote:
> I've successfully patched our gstreamer plugin to build with gstreamer-1.0,
> but how do I test it? Does someone have a sample document that uses
> gstreamer?
>
> The patch is attached for anyone interested. Parts may still be wrong, eg.
> filter names. Changes between GStreamer 0.1 and 1.0 are documented here:
> https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/application-development/appendix/porting-1-0.html
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/plain/docs/random/porting-to-1.0.txt
>
Cool! I had requested the same feature from OO long time ago. And no
one answered. I think Peter is doing a great job.

I will test your patch in my next build as I am also excited about
that feature. BIG THANK YOU!

>
>
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I've begun having a look.
>>
>> We currently test for gstreamer in configure.ac but don't use the result,
>> re-running pkg-config in a main/avmedia's makefile.
>>
>> Changing the version number to 1.0 breaks the build due a missing header
>> file. Removing that "#include" gets it a little further, but it breaks due
>> to changed gstreamer API functions. There is also lots of warnings about
>> deprecated GDK functions. I'll continue trying later.
>>
>> We should really get rid of gstreamer 0.1 ASAP one way or the other: given
>> how it's been unmaintained since 2013, it may well have security
>> vulnerabilities. We can't ship it to users since its license is
>> incompatible, but having users install it separately still invites trouble.
>>
>> Damjan
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Torokhov Sergey <torokhov-...@yandex.ru>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello, Peter.
>>>
>>> Thank you for reply and for adding additional info into AOO wiki.
>>>
>>> Yes I'm posted on that project is short of developers this time.
>>> I hope that current implementation still will hold several years
>>> because gstreamer-0.10 of long process of skiping this brach
>>> in linux distributibes.
>>>
>>> Maybe during this transition period at least the way to  standalone build
>>> of appropriate multimedia AOO library will be found if it possible at
>>> all.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I suppose I have no enough programming skills
>>> to understand how build system works and the difference between
>>> gstreamer-0.10 and 1.0 API/ABI .
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sergey
>>>
>>> 25.02.2018, 12:20, "Peter Kovacs" <pe...@apache.org>:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I have hoped that you will get a more positive answer then mine.
>>> > I have found no evidence that we have ever worked on an update of
>>> > multimedia Libs in any direction. The only thing I have found is
>>> > someone
>>> > tried to compile the old 0.1.0 Gstreamer interface on modern systems.
>>> > I think it is unlikely we will see an update in 4.2.0, since there is
>>> > no
>>> > evidence of a volunteer working on it. Of course we would like to have
>>> > a
>>> > better solution then we have now.
>>> >
>>> > In order to advance step by step I have started to collect Information
>>> > of possible solutions. And prepared to collect more Informations where
>>> > maybe another volunteer could start on.
>>> > I have not started any dicusssion, because my limit on driving topics
>>> > has been been reached. If you like you could help collecting the
>>> > informations needed to implement the stuff. If you have programming
>>> > skills you are welcome to try, but I believe it is a challenging
>>> > Journey.
>>> > My current plan is to reduce all the szuff that makes work on Open
>>> > Office step by step in order to get into a better shape that we can
>>> > work
>>> > on topics. But currently this is all but in infant state. I welcome any
>>> > help.
>>> >
>>> > The Point of Interest List I have started you find at
>>> >
>>> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=67633711
>>> > it collects all sort of topics I think I need look into.
>>> > The Wikipage I have started to collect Information for a new multimedia
>>> > backened you find at
>>> >
>>> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/new+multimedia+Backend
>>> >
>>> > I am sorry I could not invest more time in this point.
>>> >
>>> > All the best
>>> > Peter
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