Gstreamer-VAAPI and Totem

[Bastien Nocera]

On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 19:27 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alessandro Crismani
> <alessandro.crismani at ieee.org> wrote:
> > Il 06/06/2012 17:28, Bastien Nocera ha scritto:
> >
> >>> Seems that current totem master doesnt use videobalance element
> >>> >anymore. Take a look here [1]
> >>>
> >> Could you test latest totem and see if the issue is already fixed?
> >> Totem master works fine with the Fluendo VA-API plugin, but explodes
> >> when used with the branch of gst-vaapi. I reported it to Gwenole, but
> >> didn't hear back.
> >>
> >
> > Ok, that saves me from a bit of compiling. Totem master requires GTK 3.5.2,
> > which means diving into jhbuild or going the gnome git way.
> >
> > Bastien, any input where I can follow the issue? Even better, any chance of
> > seeing Totem working with VA-API backported to 3.4 so that I don't have to
> > get all the 3.5.* libraries? :)
> 
> is there any good reason of 3.5?

3.5 of what? Of Totem? It's where we use autocluttersink. Why is it not
in 3.4? Because autocluttersink was broken.

>  or it's just bumped why not:-(
> i don't see any good reason why gtk and glib requires always so new version.

Because they require new features or bug fixes that weren't in older
versions?

> in this case eg. most enterprise linux is excluded for about 5 years from now:-(

If Totem wasn't a core GNOME app, you might have a point.