diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0d737b5097..cf9a4c0ab5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,46 +1,4 @@
 *~
-*.o
-*.lo
-*.la
-Makefile
-Makefile.in
-.deps
-.libs
-stamp-h1
-stamp-h.in
-mkinstalldirs
-missing
-ltmain.sh
-libtool
-install-sh
-gst-libav-*.tar.*
-depcomp
-configure
-config.sub
-config.status
-config.log
-config.h.in
-config.h
-config.guess
-compile
-autoregen.sh
-autom4te.cache
-aclocal.m4
-INSTALL
--
-m4/libtool.m4
-m4/ltoptions.m4
-m4/ltsugar.m4
-m4/ltversion.m4
-m4/lt~obsolete.m4
-
-/docs/plugins/gst-libav-plugins-sections.txt
-/docs/plugins/gst-libav-plugins-undeclared.txt
-
-/test-driver
-/tests/check/*/*.log
-/tests/check/*/*.trs
-/tests/check/test-suite.log
 
 Build
 *.user
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
deleted file mode 100644
index c1abb23b65..0000000000
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "common"]
-        path = common
-        url = https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/common.git
-[submodule "gst-libs/ext/libav"]
-        path = gst-libs/ext/libav
-        url = https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
-[submodule "gst-libs/ext/gas-preprocessor"]
-	path = gst-libs/ext/gas-preprocessor
-	url = git://git.libav.org/gas-preprocessor.git
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
deleted file mode 100644
index da135156d5..0000000000
--- a/HACKING
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,274 +0,0 @@
-THE GOAL
---------
-What we are trying to achieve:
-
-satisfy:
-  patching of CVS checkout using our patch files placed in our CVS
-
-  passing of
-    make
-    make distcheck
-    non-srcdir build (ie, mkdir build; cd build; ../configure; make)
-
-THE SETUP
----------
-There is a "mirror" root CVS module that contains "ffmpeg".
-This directory contains a vendor-branch checkout of upstream FFmpeg CVS
-of a given day.
-
-On head, the following things have been commited on top of this:
-* patches/, which is a directory with a set of patches, and a series file
-  listing the order, as generated by quilt
-* the result of having all these patches commited (ie, quilt push -a) to the
-  ffmpeg tree.
-
-The patched CVS ffmpeg code needs to be commited to CVS so that a checkout 
-gives the patched code
-
-The Quilt state .pc hidden directory must NOT be committed to CVS, because 
-having CVS subdirs inside it confuses the hell out of quilt and causes it to
-start storing diffs against CVS Entries files, and all hell breaks loose
-
-THE WARNING
------------
-
-***
-
-NEVER EVER commit stuff in gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg UNLESS your quilt stack is
-completely applied !
-This means, ALWAYS make sure quilt push -a has been run without problems.
-
-What's more, if you want to be on the safe side, make sure that you can
-unapply and reapply without problems, by running quilt pop -a then
-quilt push -a.
-
-The ONLY exception to this is when you're working on a branch to update
-the upstream source you're working with.
-
-***
-
-THE WAY
--------
-- If you want to hack on our copy of the FFmpeg code, there are some basic
-  rules you need to respect:
-  - you need to use quilt.  If you don't use quilt, you can't hack on it.
-  - we separate patches based on the functionality they patch, and whether
-    or not we want to send stuff upstream.  Make sure you work in the right
-    patch.  use "quilt applied" to check which patches are applied.
-  - before starting to hack, run cvs diff.  There should be NO diffs, and
-    NO files listed with question mark.  If there are, somebody before you
-    probably made a mistake.  To manage the state correctly, it is vital that
-    none of the files are unknown to CVS.
-
-FIRST TIME:
-  - The quilt state is kept in a hidden dir in the gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg dir, 
-    but this hidden dir can't be kept in CVS because it confuses patch. Hence
-    when you get a clean gst-ffmpeg checkout you have an ffmpeg tree with
-    patches applied, but no quilt metadata to modify it with.
-
-  - You need to create the quilt metadata in your checkout:
-    1) Unroll the quilt patches. In gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg, run:
-
-       tac patches/series | while read p; do patch -p1 -R < "patches/$p"; done
-
-    2) Now, push all the patches to quilt and it will apply them, but now with
-       the appropriate stored metadata:
-
-       quilt push -a
-
-- if you want to add a file to a patchset, you need to:
-  - be in the right patchset
-  - quilt add (file)
-  - cvs add .pc/(patchsetname)/(file)
-  - cvs commit .pc/(patchsetname) (to update the state of quilt in cvs)
-  - edit the file
-  - cvs add the file if it doesn't exist yet
-  - quilt refresh
-  - quilt push -a (This one is IMPORTANT, otherwise you'll have a huge diff)
-  - cvs commit
-
-- if you want to add a patchset, you need to:
-  - go over the procedure with thomas to check it's correct
-  - decide where in the stack to put it.  ask for help if you don't know.
-  - go there in the patch stack (use quilt pop/push)
-  - quilt new (patchsetname).patch (don't forget .patch !)
-  - quilt add (files)
-  - cvs add .pc/(patchsetname) the whole tree
-  - cvs commit .pc/(patchsetname)
-  - quilt refresh
-  - quilt push -a
-  - cvs commit
-  - cvs diff (to check if any of the files are unknown to CVS; if they are,
-    you need to add them to CVS)
-
-THE UPSTREAM
-------------
-At some points you want to update the upstream snapshot code to a newer date.
-This is easy if you follow the steps outlined here, but make sure to follow
-them correctly !
-
-- find a good CVS snapshot date for upstream, one that is known to work.
-  You're going to save yourself quite a bit of trouble if you verify this
-  first !
-- check it out to a local directory:
-  cvs -z9 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/ffmpeg export -D '2004-04-11 23:00 GMT' ffmpeg
-- compile it and test it, make sure it works
-
-- in gst-ffmpeg/gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg:
-  - Pre-flight checks:
-    - first make sure you don't have local changes, all files are either in
-      CVS or in .cvsignore patch, the whole quilt stack is applied, and stuff
-      works.
-    - do a quilt pop -a and quilt push -a to verify everything is ok.
-
-  - Branch and rollback:
-    - tag HEAD with the branch root point:
-      cvs tag BRANCH-UPDATE-CVS-2004-04-11-23-00-ROOT
-    - branch:
-      cvs tag -b BRANCH-UPDATE-CVS-2004-04-11-23-00
-    - FIXME: lock cvs HEAD
-    - update local copy to branch:
-      cvs update -r BRANCH-UPDATE-CVS-2004-04-11-23-00
-    - peel off all patches:
-      quilt pop -a
-    - commit this
-      cvs commit
-    - check
-      cvs diff
-      you should only have ? for files that are generated somehow (binaries,
-      build files, ...)
-      you get warnings about cvs not finding files to diff that are in .pc
-      or generated by your patches
-
-  
-    - if you want, you can now compare this state of CVS (which should 
-      be last upstream CVS combined with your local unapplied quilt state)
-    - remember to NOT do cvs update from here on, since you popped your quilt
-      state all your added files that are also in CVS are not locally present.
-
-  - sync with upstream:
-    - in a temp dir, redo the export:
-      cd ..
-      mkdir tmp
-      cd tmp
-      cvs -z9 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/ffmpeg export -D '2004-04-11 23:00 GMT' ffmpeg
-    - rsync it over the old ffmpeg tree
-      rsync -arv ffmpeg ..
-    - go back and commit this new snapshot
-      cd ../ffmpeg
-      cvs commit
-    - check if any new files got added that you should add to cvs
-      cvs diff
-      This will list a lot of local files missing, from your quilt state,
-      which you shouldn't worry about.  Just inspect all the ?'s and add
-      files to cvs that belong to upstream and should be in cvs.
-    - if everything's ok and commited, tag the state:
-      cvs tag UPSTREAM-CVS-2004-04-11-23-00
-
-  - reapply and fix quilt patches one by one
-    - try applying one
-      quilt push
-    - if that didn't work, inspect the patch and figure out how to fix it:
-      - if the patch got applied upstream completely, quilt push will tell
-        you the patch looks like a reverse patch.  In that case you can
-        remove the patch from your patches file (patches/series), and
-        remove the .pc/$(patchname) and patches/$(patchname).patch files from
-        cvs.
-      - if the patch conflicts somehow, you can force application with
-        quilt push -f
-        and then resolve all the rejects, and fix the patch completely.
-        Then refresh quilt state with 
-        quilt refresh
-     - when the patch is succesfully removed or reworked, commit current state
-       to CVS, then check again if nothing is missing using cvs diff, and
-       resolve problems/apply missing files from your quilt state/...
-
-  - after reapplying your complete quilt state, test locally if the complete
-    gst-ffmpeg module now works.  Compile and test.  Resolve all problems
-    (upstream errors, missing symbols, missing files, ...) until you have
-    a working module.  commit again.
-
-  - merge to head:
-    - update locally back to head
-      cvs update -A
-    - FIXME: unlock cvs HEAD
-    - merge from your branch
-      cvs update -j BRANCH-UPDATE-CVS-2004-04-11-23-00
-    - commit
-      cvs commit
-    - check for diffs
-      cvs diff
-    - tag merge point
-      cvs tag BRANCH-UPDATE-CVS-2004-04-11-23-00-MERGE
-    - add upstream date to "THE RECORDS" below
-
-  - get a drink
-
-THE PLUGIN
-----------
-Some notes on how ffmpeg wrapping inside GStreamer currently works:
-* gstffmpeg{dec,enc,demux,mux}.c are wrappers for specific element types from
-    their ffmpeg counterpart. If you want to wrap a new type of element in
-    wrapper file.
-    The ffmpeg element types, define a whole *list* of elements (in 
-    GStreamer, each decoder etc. needs to be its own element). 
-    We use a set of tricks for that to keep coding simple: codec 
-    mapping and dynamic type creation.
-
-* ffmpeg uses CODEC_ID_* enumerations for their codecs. GStreamer uses caps,
-    which consists of a mimetype and a defined set of properties. In ffmpeg,
-    these properties live in a AVCodecContext struct, which contains anything
-    that could configure any codec (which makes it rather messy, but ohwell).
-    To convert from one to the other, we use codec mapping, which is done in
-    gstffmpegcodecmap.[ch]. This is the most important file in the whole
-    ffmpeg wrapping process! It contains functions to go from a codec type
-    (video or audio - used as the output format for decoding or the input
-    format for encoding), a codec id (to identify each format) or a format id
-    (a string identifying a file format - usually the file format extension)
-    to a GstCaps, and the other way around.
-
-* to define multiple elements in one source file (which all behave similarly),
-    we dynamically create types for each plugin and let all of them operate on
-    the same struct (GstFFMpegDec, GstFFMpegEnc, ...). The functions in
-    gstffmpeg{dec,enc,demux,mux}.c called gst_ffmpeg*_register() do this.
-    The magic is as follows: for each codec or format, ffmpeg has a single
-    AVCodec or AV{Input,Output}Format, which are packed together in a list of
-    supported codecs/formats. We simply walk through the list, for each of
-    those, we check whether gstffmpegcodecmap.c knows about this single one.
-    If it does, we get the GstCaps for each pad template that belongs to it,
-    and register a type for all of those together. We also leave this inside
-    a caching struct, that will later be used by the base_init() function to
-    fill in information about this specific codec in the class struct of this
-    element (pad templates and codec/format information). Since the actual
-    codec information is the only thing that really makes each codec/format
-    different (they all behave the same through the ffmpeg API), we don't
-    really need to do anything else that is codec-specific, so all other
-    functions are rather simple.
-
-* one particular thing that needs mention is how gstffmpeg{mux,demux}.c and
-    gstffmpegprotocol.c interoperate. ffmpeg uses URLProtocols for data input
-    and output. Now, of course, we want to use the *GStreamer* way of doing
-    input and output (filesrc, ...) rather than the ffmpeg way. Therefore, we
-    wrap up a GstPad as a URLProtocol and register this with ffmpeg. This is
-    what gstffmpegprotocol.c does. The URL is called gstreamer://%p, where %p
-    is the address of a GstPad. gstffmpeg{mux,demux}.c then open a file called
-    gstreamer://%p, with %p being their source/sink pad, respectively. This
-    way, we use GStreamer for data input/output through the ffmpeg API. It's
-    rather ugly, but it has worked quite well so far.
-
-* there's lots of things that still need doing. See the TODO file for more
-    information.
-
-THE RECORDS
------------
-- list of snapshots used:
-
-  CVS-2004-04-11-23-00
-  * other updates people didn't enter :)
-  CVS-2006-02-17-04-00
-
-THE REMINDERS
--------------
-* the initial ffmpeg checkout was imported using:
-  - get CVS ffmpeg
-    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co -D '2004-03-09 06:00 GMT' ffmpeg
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index cf667f439b..0000000000
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-COMMON_SUBDIRS = ext common tests
-SUBDIRS = $(LIBAV_SUBDIRS) $(COMMON_SUBDIRS) pkgconfig
-DIST_SUBDIRS = $(COMMON_SUBDIRS) gst-libs pkgconfig
-
-EXTRA_DIST = \
-	depcomp autogen.sh \
-	AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README ChangeLog gst-libav.doap \
-	meson_options.txt \
-	$(shell find "$(top_srcdir)" -type f -name meson.build ! -path "$(top_srcdir)/$(PACKAGE_TARNAME)-*" )
-
-ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 -I common/m4
-
-include $(top_srcdir)/common/release.mak
-
-if HAVE_GST_CHECK
-check-valgrind:
-	$(MAKE) -C tests/check check-valgrind
-
-check-torture:
-	$(MAKE) -C tests/check torture
-
-build-checks:
-	$(MAKE) -C tests/check build-checks
-else
-check-valgrind:
-	echo "'check' library not installed, skipping"
-
-check-torture:
-	echo "'check' library not installed, skipping"
-
-build-checks:
-	echo "'check' library not installed, skipping"
-endif
-
-CRUFT_FILES = \
-	$(top_builddir)/gst-libav.spec \
-	$(top_builddir)/common/shave \
-	$(top_builddir)/common/shave-libtool \
-	$(top_builddir)/common/m4/libtool.m4 \
-	$(top_builddir)/common/m4/ltoptions.m4 \
-	$(top_builddir)/common/m4/ltsugar.m4 \
-	$(top_builddir)/common/m4/ltversion.m4 \
-	$(top_builddir)/common/m4/lt~obsolete.m4
-
-include $(top_srcdir)/common/cruft.mak
-
-all-local: check-cruft
diff --git a/README b/README
index 3784d4b6be..4f69c2ecb0 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 gst-ffmpeg
 
-This module contains a GStreamer plugin for FFmpeg, as well as an internal
-copy of the FFmpeg source code.
+This module contains a GStreamer plugin for FFmpeg.
 
 PLUG-IN DEPENDENCIES AND LICENSES
 ---------------------------------
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
deleted file mode 100644
index d7c8096cf9..0000000000
--- a/TODO
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-The never-ending story of new features:
-* add more codecs into our codec map
-* demux/mux elements need rewrite for 0.9
-* investigate possible use of AVFMT_FLAG_GENPTS for timestamp smoothing
-* other filter elements that we don't have yet?
-* can we wrap URLProtocol as a source/sink?
-
-If you have cool ideas, add them here or contact the mailinglist:
-<gstreamer-devel@lists.sf.net>
diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 6a65a1ad1d..0000000000
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# gst-libav autogen.sh
-#
-# Run this to generate all the initial makefiles, etc.
-#
-# This file has been generated from common/autogen.sh.in via common/update-autogen
-
-
-test -n "$srcdir" || srcdir=`dirname "$0"`
-test -n "$srcdir" || srcdir=.
-
-olddir=`pwd`
-cd "$srcdir"
-
-package=gst-libav
-srcfile=gst-libav.doap
-
-# Make sure we have common
-if test ! -f common/gst-autogen.sh;
-then
-  echo "+ Setting up common submodule"
-  git submodule init
-fi
-git submodule update
-
-# source helper functions
-if test ! -f common/gst-autogen.sh;
-then
-  echo There is something wrong with your source tree.
-  echo You are missing common/gst-autogen.sh
-  exit 1
-fi
-. common/gst-autogen.sh
-
-# install pre-commit hook for doing clean commits
-if test ! \( -x .git/hooks/pre-commit -a -L .git/hooks/pre-commit \);
-then
-    rm -f .git/hooks/pre-commit
-    if ! ln -s ../../common/hooks/pre-commit.hook .git/hooks/pre-commit 2> /dev/null
-    then
-        echo "Failed to create commit hook symlink, copying instead ..."
-        cp common/hooks/pre-commit.hook .git/hooks/pre-commit
-    fi
-fi
-
-# GNU gettext automake support doesn't get along with git.
-# https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661128
-if test -d po ; then
-  touch -t 200001010000 po/gst-libav-1.0.pot
-fi
-
-CONFIGURE_DEF_OPT='--enable-maintainer-mode --enable-gtk-doc'
-
-if test "x$package" = "xgstreamer"; then
-  CONFIGURE_DEF_OPT="$CONFIGURE_DEF_OPT --enable-failing-tests --enable-poisoning"
-elif test "x$package" = "xgst-plugins-bad"; then
-  CONFIGURE_DEF_OPT="$CONFIGURE_DEF_OPT --with-player-tests"
-fi
-
-autogen_options $@
-
-printf "+ check for build tools"
-if test -z "$NOCHECK"; then
-  echo
-
-  printf "  checking for autoreconf ... "
-  echo
-  which "autoreconf" 2>/dev/null || {
-    echo "not found! Please install the autoconf package."
-    exit 1
-  }
-
-  printf "  checking for pkg-config ... "
-  echo
-  which "pkg-config" 2>/dev/null || {
-    echo "not found! Please install pkg-config."
-    exit 1
-  }
-else
-  echo ": skipped version checks"
-fi
-
-# if no arguments specified then this will be printed
-if test -z "$*" && test -z "$NOCONFIGURE"; then
-  echo "+ checking for autogen.sh options"
-  echo "  This autogen script will automatically run ./configure as:"
-  echo "  ./configure $CONFIGURE_DEF_OPT"
-  echo "  To pass any additional options, please specify them on the $0"
-  echo "  command line."
-fi
-
-toplevel_check $srcfile
-
-# autopoint
-if test -d po && grep ^AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION configure.ac >/dev/null ; then
-  tool_run "autopoint" "--force"
-fi
-
-# aclocal
-if test -f acinclude.m4; then rm acinclude.m4; fi
-
-autoreconf --force --install || exit 1
-
-test -n "$NOCONFIGURE" && {
-  echo "+ skipping configure stage for package $package, as requested."
-  echo "+ autogen.sh done."
-  exit 0
-}
-
-cd "$olddir"
-
-echo "+ running configure ... "
-test ! -z "$CONFIGURE_DEF_OPT" && echo "  default flags:  $CONFIGURE_DEF_OPT"
-test ! -z "$CONFIGURE_EXT_OPT" && echo "  external flags: $CONFIGURE_EXT_OPT"
-echo
-
-echo "$srcdir/configure" $CONFIGURE_DEF_OPT $CONFIGURE_EXT_OPT
-"$srcdir/configure" $CONFIGURE_DEF_OPT $CONFIGURE_EXT_OPT || {
-        echo "  configure failed"
-        exit 1
-}
-
-echo "Now type 'make' to compile $package."
diff --git a/common b/common
deleted file mode 160000
index 59cb678164..0000000000
--- a/common
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 59cb678164719ff59dcf6c8b93df4617a1075d11
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c865e5e2e..0000000000
--- a/configure.ac
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,480 +0,0 @@
-AC_PREREQ(2.69)
-
-dnl initialize autoconf
-dnl when going to/from release please set the nano (fourth number) right !
-dnl releases only do Wall, cvs and prerelease does Werror too
-AC_INIT(GStreamer libav, 1.17.0.1,
-    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer,
-    gst-libav)
-
-AG_GST_INIT
-
-dnl initialize automake
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wno-portability 1.14 no-dist-gzip dist-xz tar-ustar subdir-objects])
-
-dnl define PACKAGE_VERSION_* variables
-AS_VERSION
-
-dnl check if this is a release version
-AS_NANO(GST_GIT="no", GST_GIT="yes")
-
-dnl can autoconf find the source ?
-AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([ext/libav/gstav.c])
-
-dnl define the output header for config
-AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
-
-dnl AM_MAINTAINER_MODE only provides the option to configure to enable it
-AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enable])
-
-dnl sets host_* variables
-AC_CANONICAL_HOST
-
-dnl use pretty build output by default
-AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])
-
-dnl our libraries and install dirs use major.minor as a version
-GST_API_VERSION=$PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR.$PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR
-dnl we override it here if we need to for the release candidate of new series
-GST_API_VERSION=1.0
-AC_SUBST(GST_API_VERSION)
-
-dnl *** Check for external $AS vs detected by AS_LIBTOOL
-orig_AS="$AS"
-AG_GST_LIBTOOL_PREPARE
-AS_LIBTOOL(GST, 1700, 0, 1700)
-
-dnl *** required versions of GStreamer stuff ***
-GST_REQ=1.17.0.1
-GST_PBREQ=1.17.0.1
-
-ORC_REQ=0.4.16
-ORC_CHECK([$ORC_REQ])
-
-dnl *** autotools stuff ****
-
-dnl allow for different autotools
-AS_AUTOTOOLS_ALTERNATE
-
-dnl Add parameters for aclocal
-AC_SUBST(ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, "-I m4 -I common/m4")
-
-dnl *** check for arguments to configure ***
-
-AG_GST_ARG_DISABLE_FATAL_WARNINGS
-AG_GST_ARG_ENABLE_EXTRA_CHECKS
-
-AG_GST_ARG_WITH_PKG_CONFIG_PATH
-AG_GST_ARG_WITH_PACKAGE_NAME
-AG_GST_ARG_WITH_PACKAGE_ORIGIN
-AG_GST_ARG_VALGRIND
-AG_GST_ARG_GCOV
-
-dnl *** checks for platform ***
-
-dnl * hardware/architecture *
-
-dnl common/m4/gst-arch.m4
-dnl check CPU type
-AG_GST_ARCH
-
-dnl *** software ***
-
-dnl check for large file support
-dnl affected plugins must include config.h
-AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
-
-dnl *** checks for programs ***
-
-dnl find a compiler
-AC_PROG_CC
-AC_PROG_CC_STDC
-
-dnl check if the compiler supports '-c' and '-o' options
-AM_PROG_CC_C_O
-
-AC_PATH_PROG(VALGRIND_PATH, valgrind, no)
-AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_VALGRIND, test ! "x$VALGRIND_PATH" = "xno")
-
-dnl *** checks for libraries ***
-
-dnl check for libm, for sin()
-LT_LIB_M
-AC_SUBST(LIBM)
-
-dnl check for pthreads
-AX_PTHREAD
-
-dnl *** checks for header files ***
-
-dnl check if we have ANSI C header files
-AC_HEADER_STDC
-
-dnl *** checks for types/defines ***
-
-dnl *** checks for structures ***
-
-dnl *** checks for compiler characteristics ***
-
-dnl *** checks for library functions ***
-
-dnl *** checks for dependancy libraries ***
-
-dnl GLib is required
-GLIB_REQ=2.44.0
-AC_SUBST([GLIB_REQ])
-AG_GST_GLIB_CHECK([$GLIB_REQ])
-
-dnl checks for gstreamer
-dnl uninstalled is selected preferentially -- see pkg-config(1)
-AG_GST_CHECK_GST($GST_API_VERSION, [$GST_REQ])
-AG_GST_CHECK_GST_BASE($GST_API_VERSION, [$GST_REQ])
-AG_GST_CHECK_GST_PLUGINS_BASE($GST_API_VERSION, [$GST_PBREQ])
-AG_GST_CHECK_GST_CHECK($GST_API_VERSION, [$GST_REQ], no)
-AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_GST_CHECK, test "x$HAVE_GST_CHECK" = "xyes")
-
-AC_MSG_NOTICE(Using GStreamer Core Plugins in $GST_PLUGINS_DIR)
-AC_MSG_NOTICE(Using GStreamer Base Plugins in $GSTPB_PLUGINS_DIR)
-
-dnl Check for -Bsymbolic-functions linker flag used to avoid
-dnl intra-library PLT jumps, if available.
-AC_ARG_ENABLE(Bsymbolic,
-              [AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-Bsymbolic],[avoid linking with -Bsymbolic])],,
-              [SAVED_LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" SAVED_LIBS="${LIBS}"
-               AC_MSG_CHECKING([for -Bsymbolic linker flag])
-               LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic
-               LIBS=
-               AC_TRY_LINK([], [return 0],
-                           AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
-                           enable_Bsymbolic=yes,
-                           AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
-                           enable_Bsymbolic=no)
-               LDFLAGS="${SAVED_LDFLAGS}" LIBS="${SAVED_LIBS}"])
-
-dnl *** set variables based on configure arguments ***
-
-dnl set location of plugin directory
-AG_GST_SET_PLUGINDIR
-
-dnl Detect if we are building static plugins, in which case we need to
-dnl generates libav .la files and install the static libraries.
-AM_CONDITIONAL(GST_PLUGIN_BUILD_STATIC, test "x$enable_static" = "xyes")
-
-dnl define an ERROR_CFLAGS Makefile variable
-AG_GST_SET_ERROR_CFLAGS($FATAL_WARNINGS, [
-    -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wundef
-    -Wwrite-strings -Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security -Wold-style-definition
-    -Winit-self -Wmissing-include-dirs -Waddress
-    -Waggregate-return -Wno-multichar -Wnested-externs -Wno-attributes])
-
-dnl define correct level for debugging messages
-AG_GST_SET_LEVEL_DEFAULT($GST_GIT)
-
-dnl disable strict aliasing
-AS_COMPILER_FLAG([-fno-strict-aliasing], [EXTRA_CFLAGS="-fno-strict-aliasing"])
-AC_SUBST(EXTRA_CFLAGS)
-
-dnl *** finalize CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, LIBS ***
-
-dnl Overview:
-dnl GST_OPTION_CFLAGS:  common flags for profiling, debugging, errors, ...
-dnl GST_*:              flags shared by built objects to link against GStreamer
-dnl GST_ALL_LDFLAGS:    linker flags shared by all
-dnl GST_LIB_LDFLAGS:    additional linker flags for all libaries
-dnl GST_LT_LDFLAGS:     library versioning of our libraries
-dnl GST_PLUGIN_LDFLAGS: flags to be used for all plugins
-
-dnl GST_OPTION_CFLAGS
-if test "x$USE_DEBUG" = xyes; then
-   PROFILE_CFLAGS="-g"
-fi
-AC_SUBST(PROFILE_CFLAGS)
-
-if test "x$GST_GIT" = "xyes"; then
-  DEPRECATED_CFLAGS="-DGST_DISABLE_DEPRECATED"
-else
-  DEPRECATED_CFLAGS=""
-fi
-AC_SUBST(DEPRECATED_CFLAGS)
-
-dnl every flag in GST_OPTION_CFLAGS can be overridden at make time
-GST_OPTION_CFLAGS="\$(WARNING_CFLAGS) \$(ERROR_CFLAGS) \$(DEBUG_CFLAGS) \$(PROFILE_CFLAGS) \$(GCOV_CFLAGS) \$(OPT_CFLAGS) \$(DEPRECATED_CFLAGS)"
-
-AC_SUBST(GST_OPTION_CFLAGS)
-
-dnl FIXME: do we want to rename to GST_ALL_* ?
-dnl prefer internal headers to already installed ones
-dnl also add builddir include for enumtypes and marshal
-dnl add GST_OPTION_CFLAGS, but overridable
-GST_CFLAGS="$GST_CFLAGS"
-GST_CFLAGS="-I\$(top_srcdir)/gst-libs -I\$(top_builddir)/gst-libs $GST_CFLAGS $EXTRA_CFLAGS $GLIB_EXTRA_CFLAGS \$(GST_OPTION_CFLAGS)"
-AC_SUBST(GST_CFLAGS)
-AC_SUBST(GST_LIBS)
-
-GST_ALL_LDFLAGS="-no-undefined"
-if test "x${enable_Bsymbolic}" = "xyes"; then
-  GST_ALL_LDFLAGS="$GST_ALL_LDFLAGS -Wl,-Bsymbolic"
-fi
-AC_SUBST(GST_ALL_LDFLAGS)
-
-dnl this really should only contain flags, not libs - they get added before
-dnl whatevertarget_LIBS and -L flags here affect the rest of the linking
-GST_PLUGIN_LDFLAGS="-module -avoid-version -export-symbols-regex '^[_]*gst_plugin_.*' $GST_ALL_LDFLAGS"
-AC_SUBST(GST_PLUGIN_LDFLAGS)
-
-dnl Add MacOSX specific flags
-AC_CANONICAL_HOST
-case $host_os in
-     darwin*)
-	DARWIN_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-read_only_relocs,suppress"
-	;;
-     *)
-        DARWIN_LDFLAGS=""
-	;;
-esac
-AC_SUBST(DARWIN_LDFLAGS)
-
-AC_ARG_ENABLE(gpl,
-              [AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-gpl], [build a GPL licensed gst-libav])])
-AM_CONDITIONAL(GST_LIBAV_ENABLE_GPL, test "x$enable_gpl" = "xyes")
-if test "x$enable_gpl" = "xyes"; then
-  AC_DEFINE([GST_LIBAV_ENABLE_GPL], [], [Defined if building a GPL-licensed version of gst-libav])
-fi
-
-dnl *** configure external libs ***
-
-HAVE_LIBAV_UNINSTALLED=1
-
-AC_ARG_WITH(system-libav,
-            [AC_HELP_STRING([--with-system-libav], [use system Libav libraries])])
-
-HAVE_LZMA="no"
-HAVE_BZ2="no"
-if test "x$with_system_libav" = "xyes"; then
-  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBAV, libavfilter libavformat libavcodec >= 58 libavutil)
-  saved_CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
-  CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $LIBAV_CFLAGS"
-  AC_CHECK_HEADERS([avi.h])
-  AC_DEFINE([LIBAV_SOURCE], ["system install"], [Describes where the Libav libraries come from.])
-  HAVE_LIBAV_UNINSTALLED=0
-  AC_MSG_NOTICE([Using system-installed libav code])
-  AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether libav is provided by FFmpeg])
-  AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[
-    #include <libavcodec/avcodec.h>
-    ]],[[
-        #if LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MICRO >= 100
-        /* FFmpeg uses 100+ as its micro version */
-        #else
-        #error libav provider should be FFmpeg
-        #endif
-    ]])], [is_ffmpeg=yes], [is_ffmpeg=no])
-  AC_MSG_RESULT([$is_ffmpeg])
-  CPPFLAGS="$saved_CPPFLAGS"
-  if test "$is_ffmpeg" = no; then
-    AC_MSG_ERROR([Uncompatible libavcodec found])
-  fi
-else
-  AC_MSG_NOTICE([Using local Libav snapshot])
-
-  dnl *** Check for bz2
-  save_LIBS=$LIBS
-  LIBS="$LIBS -lbz2"
-  AC_MSG_CHECKING([for BZ2_bzlibVersion in -lbz2])
-  AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[#include <bzlib.h>]], [[const char *version = BZ2_bzlibVersion ();]])],[HAVE_BZ2=yes],[HAVE_BZ2=no])
-  AC_MSG_RESULT($HAVE_BZ2)
-  LIBS=$save_LIBS
-  if test "x$HAVE_BZ2" = "xno"; then
-    AC_WARN([libbz2 not found, matroska demuxer will not be able to read bz2 tracks])
-    BZ2_LIBS=
-  else
-    BZ2_LIBS="-lbz2"
-  fi
-
-  dnl *** Check for lzma
-  save_LIBS=$LIBS
-  LIBS="$LIBS -llzma"
-  AC_MSG_CHECKING([for lzma_version_string in -llzma])
-  AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[#include <lzma.h>]], [[const char *version = lzma_version_string ();]])],[HAVE_LZMA=yes],[HAVE_LZMA=no])
-  AC_MSG_RESULT($HAVE_LZMA)
-  LIBS=$save_LIBS
-  if test "x$HAVE_LZMA" = "xno"; then
-    AC_WARN([lzma not found, tiff reader will not be able to read lzma files])
-    LZMA_LIBS=
-  else
-    LZMA_LIBS="-llzma"
-  fi
-
-  dnl libgstlibav.la: include dirs
-  LIBAV_CPPFLAGS="-I \$(top_srcdir)/gst-libs/ext/libav \
-                -I \$(top_builddir)/gst-libs/ext/libav"
-
-  LIBAV_CFLAGS="-Wno-deprecated-declarations"
-
-  LIBAV_DEPS="\$(top_builddir)/gst-libs/ext/libav/libavfilter/libavfilter.a \
-              \$(top_builddir)/gst-libs/ext/libav/libavformat/libavformat.a \
-              \$(top_builddir)/gst-libs/ext/libav/libavcodec/libavcodec.a \
-              \$(top_builddir)/gst-libs/ext/libav/libswresample/libswresample.a \
-              \$(top_builddir)/gst-libs/ext/libav/libavutil/libavutil.a"
-
-  LIBAV_LIBS="$ac_pwd/gst-libs/ext/libavfilter.la \
-              $ac_pwd/gst-libs/ext/libavformat.la \
-              $ac_pwd/gst-libs/ext/libavcodec.la \
-              $ac_pwd/gst-libs/ext/libswresample.la \
-              $ac_pwd/gst-libs/ext/libavutil.la"
-
-  LIBAV_SUBDIRS=gst-libs
-  AC_DEFINE(HAVE_AVI_H)
-  AC_DEFINE([LIBAV_SOURCE], ["local snapshot"], [Describes where the Libav libraries come from.])
-
-  AC_ARG_WITH(libav-extra-configure,
-      AC_HELP_STRING([--with-libav-extra-configure="xxx"],
-      [extra configure options for internal libav ./configure script]),,
-      with_libav=no)
-
-  # basic arguments
-  emblibav_configure_args="--prefix=$prefix"
-
-  # Enable pic and static so that we get .a files, but with PIC code.
-  emblibav_configure_args="$emblibav_configure_args \
-        --enable-static --enable-pic \
-        --disable-avdevice --disable-postproc --disable-swscale \
-        --disable-programs --disable-ffplay --disable-ffprobe --disable-ffmpeg \
-        --disable-encoder=flac --disable-protocols --disable-devices \
-        --disable-network --disable-hwaccels --disable-dxva2 --disable-vdpau \
-        --disable-filters --enable-filter=yadif --disable-doc --disable-d3d11va \
-        --disable-audiotoolbox --disable-videotoolbox --disable-vaapi --disable-crystalhd \
-        --disable-mediacodec --disable-nvenc --disable-mmal --disable-omx \
-        --disable-omx-rpi --disable-cuda --disable-cuvid --disable-libmfx \
-        --disable-libnpp --disable-iconv --disable-jni --disable-v4l2_m2m --enable-optimizations"
-
-  if test "x$enable_gpl" == "xyes"; then
-    emblibav_configure_args="$emblibav_configure_args --enable-gpl"
-  fi
-
-  # if we are cross-compiling, tell libav so
-  case $host in
-      *android*)
-        target_os=linux
-      ;;
-      *darwin*)
-        target_os=darwin
-      ;;
-      *)
-        target_os=`echo $host_os | sed 's/-gnu.*//'`
-      ;;
-  esac
-
-  if test "x$cross_compiling" = xyes; then
-    emblibav_configure_args="$emblibav_configure_args --enable-cross-compile \
-        --target-os=$target_os --arch=$host_cpu --cross-prefix=$host_alias-"
-  fi
-
-  case $host_os in
-    mingw32*)
-      WIN32_LIBS="-lws2_32 -lbcrypt"
-      ;;
-    *)
-      WIN32_LIBS=
-      ;;
-  esac
-
-  if test x"$AR" != x; then
-    emblibav_configure_args="$emblibav_configure_args --ar=\\\"\\\$AR\\\""
-  fi
-
-  if test x"$orig_AS" != x; then
-    emblibav_configure_args="$emblibav_configure_args --as=\\\"\\\$orig_AS\\\""
-    export orig_AS
-  elif test x"$CC" != x; then
-    dnl No external $AS - try $CC for the libav assembler
-    emblibav_configure_args="$emblibav_configure_args --as=\\\"\\\$CC\\\""
-  fi
-
-  if test x"$CC" != x; then
-    emblibav_configure_args="$emblibav_configure_args --cc=\\\"\\\$CC\\\""
-  fi
-
-  if test x"$LD" != x; then
-    emblibav_configure_args="$emblibav_configure_args --ld=\\\"\\\$CC\\\""
-  fi
-
-  if test x"$NM" != x; then
-    emblibav_configure_args="$emblibav_configure_args --nm=\\\"\\\$NM\\\""
-  fi
-
-  dnl checks for extra enable/disable flags
-  LIBAV_OPTS=`cd $srcdir/gst-libs/ext/libav && ./configure --help`
-  # Let's check if we can disable the building of the libav binary
-  can_disable=`echo "$LIBAV_OPTS" | grep 'disable-ffmpeg'`
-  if test "$can_disable" != ""; then
-    emblibav_configure_args="$emblibav_configure_args --disable-ffmpeg"
-  fi
-
-  # append extra configure options to emblibav_configure_args if needed
-  if test "x$with_libav_extra_configure" != "xno"; then
-    emblibav_configure_args="$emblibav_configure_args $with_libav_extra_configure"
-  fi
-
-  AC_SUBST(LIBAV_CO_DIR)
-  AC_SUBST(LIBAV_SVN)
-  AC_SUBST(LIBAV_REVISION)
-  AC_SUBST(LIBAV_EXTERNALS_REVISION)
-  AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([configure-embedded-libav],
-    [echo "Configuring included Libav instance with args $emblibav_configure_args"
-     origdir=`pwd`
-     dnl Don't put path on the configure call when not needed, as FFmpeg's configure relies on it
-     dnl to detect out-of-tree builds
-     if test -z "$srcdir" -o "$srcdir" = .; then
-       confcmd=./configure
-     else
-       confcmd="$ac_abs_top_srcdir"/gst-libs/ext/libav/configure
-     fi
-     gasppdir="$ac_abs_top_srcdir"/gst-libs/ext/gas-preprocessor
-
-     AS_MKDIR_P(["$ac_top_build_prefix"gst-libs/ext/libav])
-     oldPATH="$PATH"
-     PATH="$gasppdir:$PATH"
-     cd "$ac_top_build_prefix"gst-libs/ext/libav &&
-         eval "$confcmd $emblibav_configure_args" ||
-         AC_MSG_ERROR([Failed to configure embedded Libav tree])
-     PATH="$oldPATH"
-     cd "$origdir"
-    ],
-    [emblibav_configure_args="$emblibav_configure_args"])
-  AC_MSG_NOTICE([Using included Libav code])
-fi
-
-AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_BZ2, test "x$HAVE_BZ2" = "xyes")
-AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_LZMA, test "x$HAVE_LZMA" = "xyes")
-
-AC_SUBST(LIBAV_CPPFLAGS)
-AC_SUBST(LIBAV_CFLAGS)
-AC_SUBST(LIBAV_DEPS)
-AC_SUBST(LIBAV_LIBS)
-AC_SUBST(LIBAV_SUBDIRS)
-AC_SUBST(WIN32_LIBS)
-AC_SUBST(BZ2_LIBS)
-AC_SUBST(LZMA_LIBS)
-
-if test x$HAVE_LIBAV_UNINSTALLED = x1; then
-  AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBAV_UNINSTALLED, [], [Defined if building against uninstalled Libav source])
-fi
-AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_LIBAV_UNINSTALLED, test x$HAVE_LIBAV_UNINSTALLED = x1)
-
-AC_CONFIG_FILES(
-Makefile
-common/Makefile
-common/m4/Makefile
-ext/Makefile
-ext/libav/Makefile
-gst-libs/Makefile
-gst-libs/ext/Makefile
-tests/Makefile
-tests/check/Makefile
-tests/files/Makefile
-pkgconfig/Makefile
-pkgconfig/gstreamer-plugins-libav-uninstalled.pc
-)
-AC_OUTPUT
-
-ORC_OUTPUT
diff --git a/docs/.gitignore b/docs/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index e5a7abe44d..0000000000
--- a/docs/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-version.entities
diff --git a/ext/Makefile.am b/ext/Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index 62f3ed6640..0000000000
--- a/ext/Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-SUBDIRS = libav
-
-DIST_SUBDIRS = libav
diff --git a/ext/libav/Makefile.am b/ext/libav/Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index 837b4f7b2e..0000000000
--- a/ext/libav/Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-plugin_LTLIBRARIES = libgstlibav.la
-
-libgstlibav_la_SOURCES = gstav.c	\
-			  gstavprotocol.c	\
-			  gstavcodecmap.c	\
-			  gstavutils.c	\
-			  gstavaudenc.c	\
-			  gstavvidenc.c	\
-			  gstavauddec.c	\
-			  gstavviddec.c	\
-			  gstavcfg.c	\
-			  gstavdemux.c	\
-			  gstavmux.c    \
-			  gstavdeinterlace.c
-#\
-#			  gstavaudioresample.c
-# 	\
-# 			  gstavscale.c
-
-libgstlibav_la_CPPFLAGS = $(LIBAV_CPPFLAGS) $(GST_PLUGINS_BASE_CPPFLAGS) $(GST_CPPFLAGS)
-libgstlibav_la_CFLAGS = $(LIBAV_CFLAGS) $(GST_PLUGINS_BASE_CFLAGS) $(GST_CFLAGS)
-libgstlibav_la_LIBADD = $(GST_PLUGINS_BASE_LIBS) \
-	-lgstaudio-$(GST_API_VERSION) -lgstvideo-$(GST_API_VERSION) \
-	-lgstpbutils-$(GST_API_VERSION) $(GST_BASE_LIBS) \
-	 $(LIBAV_LIBS) $(WIN32_LIBS) -lz $(BZ2_LIBS) $(LZMA_LIBS)
-libgstlibav_la_LDFLAGS = $(GST_PLUGIN_LDFLAGS) $(DARWIN_LDFLAGS)
-
-if HAVE_LIBAV_UNINSTALLED
-libgstlibav_la_DEPENDENCIES = $(LIBAV_DEPS)
-
-# FIXME: For some reason libtool ignores libavfilter.la, add it
-install-data-hook:
-	$(AM_V_at)cd $(DESTDIR)$(plugindir) \
-		&& sed -e "s|\($(libdir)/libavformat.la\)|$(libdir)/libavfilter.la \1|" \
-		libgstlibav.la > libgstlibav.la.tmp && cp libgstlibav.la.tmp libgstlibav.la && rm libgstlibav.la.tmp
-endif
-
-
-noinst_HEADERS = \
-	gstav.h \
-	gstavcodecmap.h \
-	gstavutils.h \
-	gstavauddec.h \
-	gstavviddec.h \
-	gstavaudenc.h \
-	gstavvidenc.h \
-	gstavcfg.h \
-	gstavprotocol.h
diff --git a/gst-libs/Makefile.am b/gst-libs/Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index f7b5f985d0..0000000000
--- a/gst-libs/Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-SUBDIRS = ext
diff --git a/gst-libs/ext/Makefile.am b/gst-libs/ext/Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index 6cdc04813c..0000000000
--- a/gst-libs/ext/Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,160 +0,0 @@
-# we have to put in a little hack here for integration to work well
-# libav can't be in SUBDIRS, because then automake will try to descend in it
-# and find conditionals it doesn't know.
-
-# so,
-# - don't put it in SUBDIRS so automake doesn't descend
-# - put it in DIST_SUBDIRS so make dist picks up the subtree
-# - add an all-local hook so it does get built
-# this also satisfies make distcheck
-
-SUBDIRS = 
-DIST_SUBDIRS = libav
-TMP_DIST_DIR=libav-dist
-DIST_DIR=$(TMP_DIST_DIR)/.libav
-EXTRA_DIST=Makefile.am
-MAINTAINERCLEANDIRS = $(DIST_SUBDIRS)
-LIB_LIST=libavutil libswresample libavcodec libavformat libavfilter
-
-# attempt to generate .la references from -l and a list of -L
-# $1 is the argument to filter, -l, -L, -I, etc
-# $2 is the list to filter
-define filter_arg
-  $(foreach item,$(filter $(1)%,$(2)),$(patsubst $(1)%,%,$(item)))
-endef
-
-# $1 library to find
-# $2 directories to search
-define find_la
- $(firstword $(wildcard $(foreach path,$(call filter_arg,-L,$(2)), $(path)/lib$(strip $(call filter_arg,-l,$(1))).la)))
-endef
-
-# $(call find_la,...) and if a library is found use that, otherwise, return the
-# original lib unchanged
-define find_la_or_original
- $(if $(strip $(call find_la,$1,$2)),$(call find_la,$1,$2),$(1))
-endef
-
-# $1 the libraries to look for (including -l) e.g. -lbz2 -lz
-# $2 LDFLAGS containing -L arguments
-define find_library_la
- $(foreach lib,$(1),$(call find_la_or_original,$(lib),$(2)))
-endef
-
-define create_la
-echo "  GEN      $1.la" && \
-(echo "# $1.la - a libtool library file" && \
- echo "# Generated by libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.6" && \
- echo "dlname=''" && \
- echo "library_names=''" && \
- echo "old_library='$1.a'" && \
- echo "inherited_linker_flags=''" && \
- echo "dependency_libs=' -L$(libdir) $(if $2,$(foreach dep,$2,$(abs_builddir)/$(dep).la)) $(call find_library_la,$3 $(LIBM),$(LDFLAGS)) '" && \
- echo "weak_library_names=''" &&  \
- echo "current=" && \
- echo "age=" && \
- echo "revision=" && \
- echo "installed=no" && \
- echo "shouldnotlink=no" && \
- echo "dlopen=''" && \
- echo "dlpreopen=''" && \
- echo "libdir='$(libdir)'") > $1.la
-endef
-
-libavutil.la:
-	$(AM_V_at)$(call create_la,libavutil)
-
-libswresample.la:
-	$(AM_V_at)$(call create_la,libswresample,libavutil)
-
-libavcodec.la:
-	$(AM_V_at)$(call create_la,libavcodec,libswresample libavutil,-lz $(LZMA_LIBS))
-
-libavformat.la:
-	$(AM_V_at)$(call create_la,libavformat,libavcodec libavutil,$(LIBM) -lz $(BZ2_LIBS))
-
-libavfilter.la:
-	$(AM_V_at)$(call create_la,libavfilter,libavformat libavcodec libswresample libavutil)
-
-all-local: $(foreach lib,$(LIB_LIST),$(lib).la)
-	cd libav && $(MAKE)
-	$(AM_V_at)$(MKDIR_P) .libs
-	$(AM_V_at)for lib in $(LIB_LIST); do \
-		if ! test -f .libs/$${lib}.a; then \
-		  echo "  CP       $${lib}"; \
-		  cp libav/$${lib}/$${lib}.a .libs/$${lib}.a; \
-		fi; \
-	done
-
-if GST_PLUGIN_BUILD_STATIC
-
-define install_la
-echo " INSTALL  $1.la" && \
-sed -e "s|$(abs_builddir)|$(libdir)|g" \
-	-e "s|installed=no|installed=no|" \
-	$1.la > $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$1.la
-endef
-
-# Normally DATA is built before am-local, fix it
-.libs/libavutil.a: all-local
-
-.libs/libswresample.a: all-local
-
-.libs/libavcodec.a: all-local
-
-.libs/libavformat.a: all-local
-
-.libs/libavfilter.a: all-local
-
-depsdir = $(libdir)
-nodist_deps_DATA = \
-	.libs/libavutil.a \
-	.libs/libswresample.a \
-	.libs/libavcodec.a \
-	.libs/libavformat.a \
-	.libs/libavfilter.a
-
-install-data-hook: 
-	$(AM_V_at)$(call install_la,libavutil)
-	$(AM_V_at)$(call install_la,libswresample)
-	$(AM_V_at)$(call install_la,libavcodec)
-	$(AM_V_at)$(call install_la,libavformat)
-	$(AM_V_at)$(call install_la,libavfilter)
-endif
-
-clean-local:
-	cd libav && $(MAKE) clean
-	rm -rf .libs
-	rm -f *.la
-
-dist-clean:
-	cd libav && $(MAKE) distclean
-	rm -rf libav/$(TMP_DIST_DIR)
-	rm -f Makefile
-	rm -f libav/.version
-	rm -f libav/.config
-
-distclean: dist-clean
-
-maintainer-clean: distclean
-	rm -rf $(MAINTAINERCLEANDIRS)
-
-maintainerclean: maintainer-clean
-
-dist-local:
-	GIT_DIR=$(srcdir)/libav/.git git checkout-index --prefix=$(abs_builddir)/libav/$(TMP_DIST_DIR)/libav/ -a
-	touch libav/$(TMP_DIST_DIR)/libav/config.mak
-	echo "Patching libav ./configure"
-	sed -e '/Unknown option/ {N;N;s/exit 1//; }' libav/$(TMP_DIST_DIR)/libav/configure > libav/$(TMP_DIST_DIR)/libav/configure.tmp
-	mv libav/$(TMP_DIST_DIR)/libav/configure.tmp libav/$(TMP_DIST_DIR)/libav/configure
-	chmod +x libav/$(TMP_DIST_DIR)/libav/configure
-
-distdir: dist-local
-	cp -r libav/$(TMP_DIST_DIR)/libav ${distdir}
-	cp -f $(top_srcdir)/gst-libs/ext/Makefile.am $(top_srcdir)/gst-libs/ext/Makefile.in ${distdir}
-	rm -rf libav/$(TMP_DIST_DIR)
-
-dist: dist-local
-	cd libav/$(TMP_DIST_DIR) && tar -czf libav.tar.gz libav
-	mv libav/$(TMP_DIST_DIR)/libav.tar.gz ./
-	rm -rf libav/$(TMP_DIST_DIR)
diff --git a/gst-libs/ext/gas-preprocessor b/gst-libs/ext/gas-preprocessor
deleted file mode 160000
index f8a2d8c155..0000000000
--- a/gst-libs/ext/gas-preprocessor
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit f8a2d8c155bda8d925a7ee2ed8315c553a2b865f
diff --git a/gst-libs/ext/libav b/gst-libs/ext/libav
deleted file mode 160000
index 4154f89678..0000000000
--- a/gst-libs/ext/libav
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 4154f8967820ca734a77ce91bb590cd77649dee8
diff --git a/m4/as-slurp-ffmpeg.m4 b/m4/as-slurp-ffmpeg.m4
deleted file mode 100644
index fd54b4298a..0000000000
--- a/m4/as-slurp-ffmpeg.m4
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-dnl slurp-ffmpeg.m4 0.1.1
-dnl a macro to slurp in ffmpeg's cvs source inside a project tree
-dnl taken from Autostar Sandbox, http://autostars.sourceforge.net/
-
-dnl Usage:
-dnl AS_SLURP_FFMPEG(DIRECTORY, DATE, [ACTION-IF-WORKED [, ACTION-IF-NOT-WORKED]]])
-dnl
-dnl Example:
-dnl AM_PATH_FFMPEG(lib/ffmpeg, 2002-12-14 12:00 GMT)
-dnl
-dnl make sure you have a Tag file in the dir where you check out that
-dnl is the Tag of CVS you want to have checked out
-dnl it should correspond to the DATE argument you supply, ie resolve to
-dnl the same date
-dnl (in an ideal world, cvs would understand it's own Tag file format as
-dnl a date spec)
-
-AC_DEFUN([AS_SLURP_FFMPEG],
-[
-  # save original dir
-  FAILED=""
-  DIRECTORY=`pwd`
-  # get/update cvs
-  if test ! -d $1; then mkdir -p $1; fi
-  dnl we need to check $srcdir/$1 or it will always checkout ffmpeg even if it is there
-  dnl at least when top_srcdir != top_builddir.
-  dnl FIXME: unfortunately this makes the checkout go into top_srcdir
-  cd $srcdir/$1
-
-  if test ! -e ffmpeg/README; then
-    # check out cvs code
-    AC_MSG_NOTICE(checking out ffmpeg cvs code from $2 into $1)
-    cvs -Q -z4 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co -D '$2' ffmpeg || FAILED=yes
-  else
-    # compare against Tag file and see if it needs updating
-    if test "`cat Tag`" == "$2"; then
-      AC_MSG_NOTICE(ffmpeg cvs code in sync)
-    else
-      cd ffmpeg 
-      AC_MSG_NOTICE(updating ffmpeg cvs code to $2)
-      cvs -Q -z4 update -dP -D '$2' || FAILED=yes
-      cd ..
-    fi
-  fi
-  if test "x$FAILED" != "xyes"; then
-    echo "$2" > Tag 
-  fi
-  
-  # now go back
-  cd $DIRECTORY
-
-  if test "x$FAILED" == "xyes"; then
-    [$4]
-    false
-  else
-    [$3]
-    true
-  fi
-])
diff --git a/pkgconfig/.gitignore b/pkgconfig/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 6fd0ef029e..0000000000
--- a/pkgconfig/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-*.pc
diff --git a/pkgconfig/Makefile.am b/pkgconfig/Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index fc94f03245..0000000000
--- a/pkgconfig/Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-### all of the standard pc files we need to generate
-pcverfiles =  \
-	gstreamer-plugins-libav-@GST_API_VERSION@.pc
-pcverfiles_uninstalled = \
-	gstreamer-plugins-libav-@GST_API_VERSION@-uninstalled.pc
-
-### all-local: $(pcverfiles) $(pcverfiles_uninstalled)
-all-local: $(pcverfiles_uninstalled)
-
-cp_verbose = $(cp_verbose_$(V))
-cp_verbose_ = $(cp_verbose_$(AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY))
-cp_verbose_0 = @echo "  CP     $@";
-
-### how to generate versioned .pc files from .pc files in this dir
-%-@GST_API_VERSION@.pc: %.pc
-	$(cp_verbose)cp $< $@
-%-@GST_API_VERSION@-uninstalled.pc: %-uninstalled.pc
-	$(cp_verbose)cp $< $@
-
-# do not install for now
-# pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
-# pkgconfig_DATA = $(pcverfiles)
-
-CLEANFILES = $(pcverfiles) $(pcverfiles_uninstalled)
-# pcinfiles = \
-#           gstreamer-plugins-libav.pc.in gstreamer-plugins-libav-uninstalled.pc.in
-pcinfiles = \
-           gstreamer-plugins-libav-uninstalled.pc.in
-
-DISTCLEANFILES = $(pcinfiles:.in=)
-EXTRA_DIST = $(pcinfiles)
diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ecdd8f489..0000000000
--- a/tests/Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-if HAVE_GST_CHECK
-SUBDIRS_CHECK = check
-else
-SUBDIRS_CHECK =
-endif
-
-SUBDIRS = $(SUBDIRS_CHECK) files
-
-DIST_SUBDIRS = check files
-
diff --git a/tests/check/.gitignore b/tests/check/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 63a4b142ca..0000000000
--- a/tests/check/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-test-registry.*
-elements/avdec_adpcm
-elements/avdemux_ape
-.dirstamp
diff --git a/tests/check/Makefile.am b/tests/check/Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index 5429eb2613..0000000000
--- a/tests/check/Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-include $(top_srcdir)/common/check.mak
-
-CHECK_REGISTRY = $(top_builddir)/tests/check/test-registry.xml
-TEST_FILES_DIRECTORY = $(top_srcdir)/tests/files
-
-REGISTRY_ENVIRONMENT = \
-	GST_REGISTRY_1_0=$(CHECK_REGISTRY)
-
-AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT += \
-	$(REGISTRY_ENVIRONMENT)					\
-	GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0=					\
-	GST_PLUGIN_PATH_1_0=$(top_builddir)/gst:$(top_builddir)/ext:$(top_builddir)/../gst-plugins-good/gst:$(GSTPB_PLUGINS_DIR):$(GST_PLUGINS_DIR)
-
-# ths core dumps of some machines have PIDs appended
-CLEANFILES = core.* test-registry.xml
-
-clean-local: clean-local-check
-
-check_PROGRAMS = \
-	generic/plugin-test \
-	generic/libavcodec-locking \
-	elements/avdec_adpcm \
-	elements/avdemux_ape
-
-VALGRIND_TO_FIX = \
-	generic/plugin-test \
-	generic/libavcodec-locking \
-	elements/avdemux_ape
-
-TESTS = $(check_PROGRAMS)
-
-# these tests don't even pass
-noinst_PROGRAMS =
-
-AM_CFLAGS = $(GST_OBJ_CFLAGS) $(GST_CHECK_CFLAGS) $(CHECK_CFLAGS) \
-	$(GST_OPTION_CFLAGS) -DGST_TEST_FILES_PATH="\"$(TEST_FILES_DIRECTORY)\"" \
-	$(PTHREAD_CFLAGS)
-
-LDADD = $(GST_OBJ_LIBS) $(GST_CHECK_LIBS) $(CHECK_LIBS)
-
-# valgrind testing
-VALGRIND_TESTS_DISABLE = $(VALGRIND_TO_FIX)
-
-SUPPRESSIONS = $(top_srcdir)/common/gst.supp $(srcdir)/gst-libav.supp
-
-EXTRA_DIST = gst-libav.supp
diff --git a/tests/check/generic/.gitignore b/tests/check/generic/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index d79329ae88..0000000000
--- a/tests/check/generic/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-.dirstamp
-libavcodec-locking
-plugin-test
diff --git a/tests/files/Makefile.am b/tests/files/Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index dd576b98f8..0000000000
--- a/tests/files/Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-EXTRA_DIST = \
-	586957.ape \
-	591809.wav