state of gstreamer for android (non compilable, unmaintained? not tested def)

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Wed, 2018-04-11 at 15:25 -0700, Mikel Pérez wrote:
> I've been writing a music player (for replaygain, faster library
> scanning than mediastore + caching external storage results, better
> API overall than android's MediaPlayer, etc) for a while and tried to
> update to 1.14.0, but I can't compile my app because of these
> messages:
> [...]

That's this bug here:
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794599

It also should affect iOS for the same reasons, and will be fixed with
1.14.1.

> also, while I can compile with 1.12.4, I can't run the x86 version
> due to text rellocations:
> [...]

This is probably
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742633

and not fixed in 1.14 from what I can see. You need to disable the
libav and x264 plugins as the code of the underlying libraries has text
relocations.

In general, please always report in Bugzilla if something does not work
so that it can be fixed :)

> so it seems this 1.14.0 release is borked for android, and the
> previous one was borked for x86 android. is the project still being
> maintained? I'd hate to see it go because I found the perfect lib for
> my musicplayer

It's still maintained and people are using it in production, but
unfortunately not much testing from 3rd parties seems to happen in GIT
master and also not with pre-releases, so such problems only show up
after the releases then. So bugs that don't affect everybody might get
unnoticed until someone actually tests the new release in their
application that makes use of the affected features, and then reports
them.

The first one for example only happens if you use both the dtls plugin
and souphttpsrc with TLS support, the second one only happens on x86 if
using the x264 or libav plugin.

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Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · http://www.centricular.com
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