[Bug 776140] New: Remove mad plugin

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776140

            Bug ID: 776140
           Summary: Remove mad plugin
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git master
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-ugly
          Assignee: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: t.i.m at zen.co.uk
        QA Contact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---

I wonder if we should just remove the mad plugin entirely.

Reasons:

 - libmad is GPL
 - libmad is completely unmaintained
 - libmad is slow

The main reason to keep it around and at a high rank was because it was the
only mp3 decoder that could handle so-called 'freeform' mp3s with
higher-than-specced bitrates.

This is no longer the case and libmpg123 handles those just fine in recent
versions.

If we don't decide to remove the mad plugin, we should at least remove it from
the binaries we ship via cerbero.

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