more mergeback from the latest release

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more mergeback from the latest release

README

@@ -4,8 +4,16 @@ plugins for GStreamer
 
 * to develop against uninstalled GStreamer core :
   add path to gstreamer-uninstalled.pc to PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+  or run configure --with-pkg-config-path=(path to gstreamer uninstalled)
 
 * to register plugins in source tree
   run gst-register --gst-plugin-path=.
 
+* if a certain plugin doesn't build, then redo configure with
+  --disable-(plugin)
+  to disable it from the build
 
+* Additional documentation :
+
+REQUIREMENTS
+	supporting libraries for plugins

REQUIREMENTS

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+This file lists supporting libraries for which gst-plugins contains plugins,
+as well as their minimum version.  You can find the corresponding plugins in
+ext/(library)
+
+a52dec 			0.7.3
+avifile 	>= 	0.6.0 (cvs)
+

configure.ac

@@ -10,10 +10,15 @@ AM_DISABLE_STATIC
 dnl when going to/from release please set the nano (fourth number) right !
 dnl We disable static building for development, for time savings
 AM_DISABLE_STATIC
-AS_VERSION(gst-plugins, GST_PLUGINS, 0, 3, 3, 1)
+AS_VERSION(gst-plugins, GST_PLUGINS, 0, 3, 4, 0)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE,$VERSION)
 AS_LIBTOOL(GST_PLUGINS, 0, 0, 0, yes)
 
+dnl we'll move this to a configure option later on which will be turned on
+dnl by autogen
+dnl GST_ERROR="-Wall -Werror"
+GST_ERROR="-Werror"
+
 dnl FIXME take something else ?
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([gst/law/alaw.c])
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)

sys/oss/gstosssink.c

@@ -474,9 +474,7 @@ gst_osssink_chain (GstPad *pad, GstBuffer *buf)
         }
 	
 	
-	/* FIXME: reverted wtay's patch.
+	/* this doesn't work on BE machines, apparently
-	   The way that's commented out isn't working on BE machines.
-	   I guess it should be sample accurate and not capped inbetween.
 	while (size) {
           gint tosend = MIN (size, frag);
           write (osssink->fd, data, tosend);

tools/gst-launch-ext

@@ -81,14 +81,14 @@ read_config ();
 ###  "ac3", "ac3parse ! $cfg{AUDIOSINK}",
 %pipes = ( 
   "au", "auparse ! $cfg{AUDIOSINK}",
-  "avi", "avidemux video_00! { queue ! windec ! $cfg{VIDEOSINK} } avidemux0.audio_00! { queue ! mad ! $cfg{AUDIOSINK} }",
+  "avi", "avidemux video_%02d! { queue ! windec ! $cfg{VIDEOSINK} } avidemux0.audio_00! { queue ! mad ! $cfg{AUDIOSINK} }",
   "fli", "flxdec ! colorspace ! $cfg{VIDEOSINK}",
   "mod", "modplug !  $cfg{AUDIOSINK}",
   "mp3", "mad ! $cfg{AUDIOSINK}",
-  "mpg", "mpegdemux video_00! { queue ! mpeg2dec ! $cfg{VIDEOSINK} } mpegdemux0.audio_00! { queue ! mad ! $cfg{AUDIOSINK} }",
+  "mpg", "mpegdemux video_%02d! { queue ! mpeg2dec ! $cfg{VIDEOSINK} } mpegdemux0.audio_%02d! { queue ! mad ! $cfg{AUDIOSINK} }",
   "ogg", "vorbisdec ! $cfg{AUDIOSINK}",
   "sid", "siddec ! $cfg{AUDIOSINK}",
-  "vob", "mpegdemux video_00! { queue max_level=500 ! mpeg2dec ! $cfg{VIDEOSINK} } mpegdemux0.private_stream_1.0! { queue max_level=500 ! a52dec ! $cfg{AUDIOSINK} }",
+  "vob", "mpegdemux video_%02d! { queue max_level=500 ! mpeg2dec ! $cfg{VIDEOSINK} } mpegdemux0.private_stream_1_%02d! { queue max_level=500 ! a52dec ! $cfg{AUDIOSINK} }",
 );
 
 if ($cfg{VISUALIZER}) {