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

[Chuck Crisler]

Shortly before a release there are several RC (release candidate) builds.
That is the perfect time to perform this testing and identify and fix
problems.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 3:51 AM Sebastian Dröge <sebastian at centricular.com>
wrote:

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