[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk] gst: Fix detection of h264 stream decoder

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 05:46:51PM +0200, Victor Toso wrote:
> What I'm trying to stress is that we are trying to not check *specific*
> plugins related to decode/parse a stream. We don't know what our users
> will be using and we should not enforce them to use avdec_h264 for
> instance. You are doing this in this patch and that's why I'm against
> it.

Yes, actually, on fedora you won't get avdec_h264 unless you enable RPM
Fusion, and you might prefer to go the Cisco openh264 road instead
( https://ausil.us/wordpress/?p=126 - assuming this is still the
recommended way to go with Workstation these days). So yeah my feeling
would be to avoid hardcoding plugin names, assuming we can fallback
properly if the decoding fails. We could also try to make use of the
'missing-codec' GStreamer infrastructure if we want to get fancy.

Christophe
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