It's been replaced by NVENC/NVDEC and even NVIDIA doesn't
support VDPAU any longer and hasn't for quite some time.
The plugin has been unmaintained and unsupported for a very
long time, and given the track record over the last 10 years
it seems highly unlikely anyone is going to make it work well,
not to mention adding plumbing for proper zero-copy or
gst-gl integration.
Closes https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/issues/828
The VCD source was ported in 2014 (commit 89eb1e9), but the necessary
"cdxaparse" plugin, which is used to "Parse a .dat file (VCD) into
raw mpeg1" was never ported.
This means that the probable main user for the feature, totem, hasn't
actually been able to play back VCDs, since 2012, when it switched to
using GStreamer 1.0.
Note that even if cdxaparse was finally ported, a lot of work would
still be necessary before it is considered usable. Notably, it is
missing disc image support [1] and some VCDs just cannot be opened for
reading [2].
[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/issues/898
[2]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/issues/899
ACM is an ancient legacy API, and there's no point in
keeping it around for a licensed mp3 decoder now that
mp3 patents have expired and we have a decoder in -good.
We didn't ship this in cerbero anyway. If there's a good
case for the AAC encoder (which is LC only anyway) someone
should write a new plugin based on current APIs, that can
actually be built out of the box.
Fixes#850
Note that, since Nvidia does not provide nvEncodeAPI.lib file,
find_library() couldn't be used for build on Windows.
This patch changes to load nvEncodeAPI(64).dll or libnvidia-encode.so
in runtime
If they were not ported after 4+ years it seems unlikely that anybody is
ever going to need them again. They're still in the GIT history if
needed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774530
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson
With contributions from:
Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com>
Matej Knopp <matej.knopp@gmail.com>
Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> (original port)
Highlights of the features provided are:
* Faster builds on Linux (~40-50% faster)
* The ability to build with MSVC on Windows
* Generate Visual Studio project files
* Generate XCode project files
* Much faster builds on Windows (on-par with Linux)
* Seriously fast configure and building on embedded
... and many more. For more details see:
http://blog.nirbheek.in/2016/05/gstreamer-and-meson-new-hope.htmlhttp://blog.nirbheek.in/2016/07/building-and-developing-gstreamer-using.html
Building with Meson should work on both Linux and Windows, but may
need a few more tweaks on other operating systems.
