[Bug 774508] Disable unmaintained, fringe plugins by default

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774508

--- Comment #6 from Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> ---
Dunno what we're trying to achieve here tbh. What does 'unmaintained' mean, if
they mostly just work fine, but aren't super-commonly used.

Maybe we should focus on things that are autoplugged in decoding pipelines
first?

adpcm - well ffmpeg might have support for that, but fact is that millions of
people get their GStreamer installed without gst-ffmpeg, so we'd basically be
removing decoding support for the most common adpcm variant from GStreamer here
for all these people, no? :)

zbar - people use that

mimic - I think we can just remove that (see other bug report)

opus - we can just remove this I think (opusparse) - not sure what its purpose
is/was. I don't think it can parse the test vectors, which is the only purpose
I can think of.

librfb - kinda useful, and certainly not "unmaintained" - we just bragged about
all the improvements in the release notes ;)

mpeg2enc - is this the main/only decent/fully-featured mpeg-2 video encoder?
How does it compare to the ffmpeg one? People use this I think.

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