[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 161922] script to provide plugin installation info

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------- Comment #10 from Stefan Kost (gstreamer, gtkdoc dev)  2007-01-08 10:13 UTC -------
> Not sure what you mean here. Do you mean that if you post a missing-plugin
> message for an element (by element-name rather than decoder caps) the string
> you get is just a generic 'GStreamer foobar element' and you want to supply
> hints so it becomes something like 'foobar waveform generator' or so? I think
> this kind of thing should either go into
> gst_base_utils_get_element_description() or be completely up to the
> application. 

I was just thinking to say e.g. 'GStreamer foobar source element' or in the
wrapper case 'LADSPA superbass source element'. Basically allow the application
to optionally supply a default string to
gst_element_post_missing_element_message() with that text, as the app might
know more here.


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