[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 529741] New: LGPL ioctl-based GStreamer CDDA plugin

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  GStreamer | gst-plugins | Ver: HEAD CVS
           Summary: LGPL ioctl-based GStreamer CDDA plugin
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: HEAD CVS
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: opensolaris
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: brian.cameron at sun.com
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
     GNOME version: Unspecified
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


I'm attaching a patch which adds an ioctl-based GStreamer CDDA plugin which
works well on Solaris.  It probably would require a bit of work to get
functional on Linux, since I believe the ioctls are slightly different.

The advantage of this plugin is that it is LGPL, whereas libcdio and
libcdparanoia are GPL and not good to link into the LGPL GStreamer framework
(refer to bug #413705).  Secondly, even if libcdparanoia is relicensed under
LGPL, libcdparanoia does not support or build on Solaris.  

So, this is a handy, simply GStreamer plugin for supporting CDDA without the
licensing issues of GPL.

Could this plugin be added to gst-plugins-good, or gst-plugins-bad?


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