[Bug 289] Review request: gstreamer-pitfdll - GStreamer plugin for using MS Windows binary codecs

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289





--- Comment #29 from Erik van Pienbroek <erik-rpmfusion at vanpienbroek.nl>  2009-01-11 13:53:14 ---
(In reply to comment #28)
> (In reply to comment #27)
> > No, that doesn't solve the problem. The problem is that the w32codecs need to
> > be installed before any gstreamer application is launched after the
> > installation of gstreamer-pitfdll. If this isn't done, the w32codecs won't be
> > detected and the user is forced to remove the ~/.gstreamer-0.10 directory
> > before the w32codecs will be detected by gstreamer.
> 
> Sounds like a bug. Or is that just me?

Not really. GStreamer only performs a plugin recheck when a new or changed file
in %{_libdir}/gstreamer-0.10 is detected. So, after the installation of
gstreamer-pitfdll, gstreamer notices there's a new plugin and thus performs a
plugin recheck. However, if at this time, the w32codecs aren't installed in
/usr/lib/codecs, the pitfdll plugin will be detected, but no 'features'
(supported audio/video formats) will be provided by the plugin. Without any
'features', this plugin is useless.


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