Bug 9811

Summary: Update GStreamer to 1.8.2 and fix up the "GIT" recipes
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Sebastian Dröge (slomo) <slomo>
Component: multimediaAssignee: Maxin B. John <maxin.john>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact: Jose Perez C <jose.perez.carranza>
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium+ CC: jku, jose.perez.carranza, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, rebecca.swee.fun.chang
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 2.2 M2   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Sebastian Dröge (slomo) 2016-06-22 06:24:59 UTC 
Currently OE Core uses GStreamer 1.6.3. This is a rather old release by now and it would be good to update to the latest stable release, 1.8.3.


Additionally it would be good if the "GIT" recipes would be updated to something more meaningful too. Currently they point to some GIT commit that seems to be equivalent to the 1.7.2 release. As the 1.7 release series was an unstable release series leading to the stable 1.8 release series, it should at least be updated to that instead.

Users running the "GIT" recipes will run into various bugs that are long fixed since then, causing unneeded overhead when these bugs are then reported.

Either the "GIT" recipes should be updated more regularly, or be removed instead.
Comment 1 Jussi Kukkonen 2016-06-22 08:46:14 UTC 
> Currently OE Core uses GStreamer 1.6.3

No, master is at 1.8.1. plugins-bad is unfortunately lagging behind but even that has a patch on ML -- I'm guessing we'll get that in as soon as milestone 1 is released (which should be any day now). With hindsight we should not have left plugins-bad behind but what's done is done...

Still 1.8.3 would be good to have.

> Either the "GIT" recipes should be updated more regularly, or be removed instead.

This is true. Unless someone volunteers to maintain them, "remove" is the likely choice. 

Let's keep this bug open for
 A) minor version bump to 1.8.3
 B) git recipe removal

Assigning to Maxin: please push back to me if you don't want it.
Comment 2 Jussi Kukkonen 2016-06-22 08:47:21 UTC 
Current stable is actually 1.8.2
Comment 3 Maxin B. John 2016-06-22 14:52:24 UTC 
 Will go for a version bump to 1.8.2
Comment 4 Maxin B. John 2016-06-27 09:03:59 UTC 
Khem has already sent the gstreamer 1.8.2 upgrade. I have sent the gstreamer git upgrade patches to oe-core:

http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2016-June/123285.html
Comment 6 Jose Perez C 2016-08-12 21:11:05 UTC 
Verified on master commit: 6b66e9317f4ec3a69f98f29836aafa35b52f3fc7
Comment 7 Jose Perez C 2016-09-09 15:32:26 UTC 
This was already verified