Do not maintain similar build instructions within each gst-plugins-*
subproject and the subproject/gstreamer subproject. Use the build
instructions from the mono-repository and link to them via hyperlink.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1829>
Update x264enc long-name to be more than just the name. Then the
description also was updated to be longer than the long-name, and
similar to the plugin description.
Finally, as I am here, H264 was replaced by H.264 and x264 is only a
plugin (not plugins).
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1781>
This will only affect individual/tarball module builds, as the
options yield to the parent project which was set to gpl=disabled
by default already. We kept it as auto in the original commit
to accommodate the need to update cerbero as well, which had to
be done separately after the initial commit.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1217>
... in favour of dep.get_variable('foo', ..) which in some
cases allows for further cleanups in future since we can
extract variables from pkg-config dependencies as well as
internal dependencies using this mechanism.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1183>
For monorepo build and ugly/bad, for advanced feature
option API like get_option('xyz').required(..) which
we use in combination with the 'gpl' option.
For rest of modules for consistency (people will likely
use newer features based on the top-level requirement).
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1084>
