diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 06e5758a15..438b2cd5cb 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ dnl check for libm, for sin() etc.
AC_CHECK_LIBM
AC_SUBST(LIBM)
-dnl needed for gst/xdgmime
AC_FUNC_MMAP
dnl *** checks for header files ***
@@ -298,7 +297,6 @@ AG_GST_CHECK_PLUGIN(tta)
AG_GST_CHECK_PLUGIN(valve)
AG_GST_CHECK_PLUGIN(videosignal)
AG_GST_CHECK_PLUGIN(vmnc)
-AG_GST_CHECK_PLUGIN(xdgmime)
dnl *** plug-ins to exclude ***
@@ -312,7 +310,6 @@ dnl disable experimental plug-ins
#if test "x$BUILD_EXPERIMENTAL" != "xyes"; then
#fi
-# For xdgmime, to use g_content_type_guess()
# This will always succeed because we depend on GLib >= 2.16
PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GIO, gio-2.0 >= 2.16, HAVE_GIO=yes, HAVE_GIO=no)
AC_SUBST(GIO_CFLAGS)
@@ -1749,7 +1746,6 @@ gst/tta/Makefile
gst/valve/Makefile
gst/videosignal/Makefile
gst/vmnc/Makefile
-gst/xdgmime/Makefile
gst-libs/Makefile
gst-libs/gst/Makefile
gst-libs/gst/interfaces/Makefile
diff --git a/docs/plugins/inspect/plugin-xdgmime.xml b/docs/plugins/inspect/plugin-xdgmime.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index aecd94d252..0000000000
--- a/docs/plugins/inspect/plugin-xdgmime.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-
- xdgmime
- XDG-MIME
- ../../gst/xdgmime/.libs/libgstxdgmime.so
- libgstxdgmime.so
- 0.10.14.1
- LGPL
- gst-plugins-bad
- GStreamer Bad Plug-ins git/prerelease
- Unknown package origin
-
-
-
-
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/gst-plugins-bad.spec.in b/gst-plugins-bad.spec.in
index 66fa5d460d..c3e8ad0d92 100644
--- a/gst-plugins-bad.spec.in
+++ b/gst-plugins-bad.spec.in
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%{_libdir}/gstreamer-%{majorminor}/libgstliveadder.so
%{_libdir}/gstreamer-%{majorminor}/libgstrtpmux.so
%{_libdir}/gstreamer-%{majorminor}/libgstsiren.so
-%{_libdir}/gstreamer-%{majorminor}/libgstxdgmime.so
%{_libdir}/gstreamer-%{majorminor}/libgstadpcmdec.so
%{_libdir}/gstreamer-%{majorminor}/libgstid3tag.so
%{_libdir}/gstreamer-%{majorminor}/libgsthdvparse.so
diff --git a/gst/xdgmime/Makefile.am b/gst/xdgmime/Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index f338a85d18..0000000000
--- a/gst/xdgmime/Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-plugin_LTLIBRARIES = libgstxdgmime.la
-
-libgstxdgmime_la_SOURCES = gstxdgmime.c
-
-libgstxdgmime_la_CFLAGS = $(GIO_CFLAGS) $(GST_CFLAGS)
-libgstxdgmime_la_LIBADD = $(GIO_LIBS) $(GST_LIBS)
-libgstxdgmime_la_LDFLAGS = $(GST_PLUGIN_LDFLAGS)
-libgstxdgmime_la_LIBTOOLFLAGS = --tag=disable-static
-
diff --git a/gst/xdgmime/gstxdgmime.c b/gst/xdgmime/gstxdgmime.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 2bc9d02a78..0000000000
--- a/gst/xdgmime/gstxdgmime.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,100 +0,0 @@
-/* GStreamer
- * Copyright (C) <2009> Sebastian Dröge
- *
- * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
- * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- * Library General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
- * License along with this library; if not, write to the
- * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
- */
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include
-#endif
-
-#include
-
-GST_DEBUG_CATEGORY (xdgmime_debug);
-#define GST_CAT_DEFAULT xdgmime_debug
-
-#include
-
-static void
-xdgmime_typefind (GstTypeFind * find, gpointer user_data)
-{
- gchar *mimetype;
- gsize length = 16384;
- guint64 tf_length;
- guint8 *data;
- gchar *tmp;
-
- if ((tf_length = gst_type_find_get_length (find)) > 0)
- length = MIN (length, tf_length);
-
- if ((data = gst_type_find_peek (find, 0, length)) == NULL)
- return;
-
-
- tmp = g_content_type_guess (NULL, data, length, NULL);
- if (tmp == NULL || g_content_type_is_unknown (tmp)) {
- g_free (tmp);
- return;
- }
-
- mimetype = g_content_type_get_mime_type (tmp);
- g_free (tmp);
-
- if (mimetype == NULL)
- return;
-
- GST_DEBUG ("Got mimetype '%s'", mimetype);
-
- /* Ignore audio/video types:
- * - our own typefinders in -base are likely to be better at this
- * (and if they're not, we really want to fix them, that's why we don't
- * report xdg-detected audio/video types at all, not even with a low
- * probability)
- * - we want to detect GStreamer media types and not MIME types
- * - the purpose of this xdg mime finder is mainly to prevent false
- * positives of non-media formats, not to typefind audio/video formats */
- if (g_str_has_prefix (mimetype, "audio/") ||
- g_str_has_prefix (mimetype, "video/")) {
- GST_LOG ("Ignoring audio/video mime type");
- g_free (mimetype);
- return;
- }
-
- /* Again, we mainly want the xdg typefinding to prevent false-positives on
- * non-media formats, so suggest the type with a probability that trumps
- * uncertain results of our typefinders, but not more than that. */
- GST_LOG ("Suggesting '%s' with probability POSSIBLE", mimetype);
- gst_type_find_suggest_simple (find, GST_TYPE_FIND_POSSIBLE, mimetype, NULL);
- g_free (mimetype);
-}
-
-static gboolean
-plugin_init (GstPlugin * plugin)
-{
- gboolean ret;
-
- GST_DEBUG_CATEGORY_INIT (xdgmime_debug, "xdgmime", 0, "XDG-MIME");
-
- ret = gst_type_find_register (plugin,
- "xdgmime", GST_RANK_MARGINAL, xdgmime_typefind, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
-
- return ret;
-}
-
-GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE (GST_VERSION_MAJOR,
- GST_VERSION_MINOR,
- "xdgmime",
- "XDG-MIME",
- plugin_init, VERSION, "LGPL", GST_PACKAGE_NAME, GST_PACKAGE_ORIGIN)