latest gstreamer build - mad blacklisted

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 22:05 +0100, Stuart Gray wrote:

> Building the latest gstreamer release

Could you be more specific? Which version(s) of which modules?

> results with a build that is missing the mad plugin. Using gst-inspect
> I get:
>  ...
> Total count: 37 plugins (1 blacklist entry not shown), 828 features

gst-inspect-0.10 -b

should show the blacklisted entries.

Try:

 $ rm ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry*

and then

 $ gst-inspect-0.10

or (assuming plugins go into prefix /usr)

  $ gst-inspect-0.10 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmad.so

to see what the issue is. 


> When decoding mp3 only the ffmpeg decoder is available. Using an older
> version allows mad to be used, why has this been done? Is it related
> to licensing?

It's likely a build or packaging issue of some sort, and not on purpose.

 Cheers
  -Tim