[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 622773] Encourage people to not use ffmpeg muxers

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622773
  GStreamer | gst-ffmpeg | git

Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> 2010-06-26 10:16:03 UTC ---
No, it's not nice. It's misleading, people who try to use them are frustrated
if stuff doesn't work or doesn't work as well as expected. It gives GStreamer a
bad name, and it gives ffmpeg a bad name (even if it may just be our glue
that's broken), and gstreamer-devel gets flooded with cries for help, and then
people are just told "don't use these elements".

If the elements are there, there's an expectation that someone cares about them
at least a little bit, which is simply not the case. I don't see the point in
providing elements that we are not going to support. And if the main muxers are
broken in some way, they need to get fixed anyway.

We can still make these muxers available for testing purposes by bypassing the
blacklisting when some environment variable is set or something.

So +1 for these patches, and +1 for blacklisting the muxers entirely (but that
doesn't have to be decided now, and it's not what the patches are about).

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