Adding (parts of) gstreamer-plugins-bad to FE?

[Michel Salim]

2006/11/28, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl>:
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>
> Michel Salim wrote:
> > 2006/11/27, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl>:
> >>
> >>
> >> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >> > Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) said:
> >> >> qt
> >> >> Quicktime container format support, through own gst code (no libs
> >> used),
> >> >> this one is trouble some. I would really like to see this in FE as
> >> this
> >> >> adds supports for videos made with many digital photo cameras to
> >> >> gstreamer using applications (usually these camera's just dump a raw
> >> >> audio stream and a serie of jpeg images into a .mov file.
> >> >>
> >> >> So where should this one go? I really don't know. Can anyone help
> >> here?
> >> >
> >> > I'm not 100% sure, but I believe the quicktime *container* format is
> >> open;
> >> > it's just that most of the things put in it usually aren't.
> >> >
> >>
> >> So that makes 2 votes in favor of qt container support in FE, rest
> >> assured I'm only talking about *container* support here.
> >>
> >> Are there any nay-sayers? Should we pass this through legal first? (no
> >> please). Anyone who can give a definite YES?
> >>
> > I'm not too familiar with the QT container format, but here's an Apple
> > developer talking about parts of QuickTime that is patented:
> >
> > http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis-dev/2001-October/004846.html
> >
> > Whether the patent is still valid, or whether it's implemented in
> > gstreamer-plugins-bad, I don't know.
> >
> >
>
> IANAL, but the patent referenced there if I understand the mail correctly is about optimising a file when creating one so that it can be easily streamed, that doesn't seem relevant for qt-reading code.
>
Ah, true. In that case, I'm all for having more Gstreamer plugins made
available out-of-the-box.

Is the intention to put them in one RPM or split them out
one-per-plugin? The former seems better, but what do you want to call
it - gstreamer-plugins-not-so-bad does not really appeal.

Regards,

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