[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 #11 from Erik van Pienbroek <erik-rpmfusion at vanpienbroek.nl>  2009-01-09 17:29:32 ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > - Added information about w32codecs in description
> 
> Please delete end user information from description and put them in a file
> called README.Fedora or similar that must be included among the doc files.
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Summary_and_description

This is kind of a 'chicken and egg' situation. The w32codecs need to be
installed before this plugin is installed. If this isn't done, the user is
forced to perform some manual action (removing the ~/.gstreamer-0.10 directory)
before this plugin becomes functional. The README.Fedora file is only readable
after this plugin is installed. I realize this is a diverge from the Fedora
package guidelines, but I think we don't really have another option... The only
other solution I can think about is patching this plugin so that it somehow
triggers a gstreamer plugin cache regeneration when new/changed files are
detected in /usr/lib/codecs, but I don't know if that is actually possible (I
don't have any experience with the GStreamer API yet..)


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