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Bug#785874: No h.264 support in stable and sid



On So, 2015-06-28 at 20:55 +0200, Peter Spiess-Knafl wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Thanks for getting back so quickly.
> 
> > Qt 5.5 is the first version that adds support for GStreamer 1.x. If 
> > you
> > use that version, it should be able to use gstreamer1.0-libav for 
> > h264
> > decoding. If that doesn't work, you're probably running into a bug
> > somewhere in Qt as it seems to work fine for all other GStreamer 
> > 1.x
> > apps that we currently have :)
> > 
> 
> Ah ok. I thought that gstreamer1.0-libav was somehow a direct
> replacement for gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg.

It is the successor of gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, yes. Same code really. But
you need to use GStreamer 1.x to be able to use it, which Qt before 5.5
didn't.

> I will check that with Qt5.5
> 
> However in Jessie, there is currently no possibility to decode H.264
> videos from qt, since gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg is required for that. Do 
> you have an idea how we could fix this?

Get rid of Qt 5.4 :) gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg is not going to come back,
actually all of GStreamer 0.10 is going to disappear soon hopefully.

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