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GStreamer 1.0 and 0.10

GStreamer 1.0 and 0.10

Posted Oct 28, 2011 19:18 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: GStreamer 1.0 and 0.10 by jospoortvliet
Parent article: GStreamer 1.0 and 0.10

Xine backend for Phonon is completely unmaintained and abandoned. VLC backend relies on ffmpeg and many mainstream distributions cannot include it by default due to patent encumbrances. That leaves Gstreamer as the only viable default option.


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