[Sugar-devel] porting Gstreamer Activities to PYGobject and Gstreamer 1.0

[Simon Schampijer]

Hey Activity team,

so in the last days we have been looking here at Gstreamer and the 
situation in regards to Pygobject and GTK+ 3.

All in all in order to use Gstreamer with introspection we have to use 
Gstreamer 1.0 (0.12). Version 0.10 is dead, and will never really work 
with introspection (see [1] and what we know as well from talking with 
the Gstreamer devs).

I talked to Peter and Gstreamer-1.0 should be packaged with F18, see 
recent discussions [2].

In the meantime when you port your activity you can build Gstreamer on 
your system and use a script to point your activity to the new Gstreamer 
version [3][4].

If you are stuck while poring you can have a look at the Pitivi porting 
branch [5].

Regards,
    Simon

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Novacut/GStreamer1.0#Python_Porting_Guide
[2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-desktop/msg07545.html
[3] 
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/faq/html/chapter-git.html#git-anon
[4] 
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/faq/html/chapter-developing.html#developing-uninstalled-gstreamer
[5] https://github.com/nekohayo/pitivi/tree/pygi