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[Ricardo Salveti de Araujo <ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo
<ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Thanks for bringing up this topic, this was a WI from our image-cleanup
> work that still didn't happen :-)
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Dimitri John Ledkov
> <dimitri.ledkov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I was looking at the touch seed and spotted gtk2 among other set of
>> strange packages.
>>
>> Turns out that we currently seed:
>> "* gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad # bad is needed because of h264parse and faad"
>>
>> But, 1.0-plugins-bad is a big kitchensink of many plugins for various
>> formats (most of which i've never heard before)
>
> Yeah, we don't want the full -bad package set by default indeed.
>
>> Currently 1.0-plugins-bad provides:
>> Gstreamer-Elements: adpcmdec, adpcmenc, asfmux, asfparse, assrender,
>> audioparse, audiosegmentclip, autoconvert, autovideoconvert,
>> bayer2rgb, bpmdetect, bulge, burn, bz2dec, bz2enc, camerabin,
>> checksumsink, chopmydata, chromahold, chromium, circle, coloreffects,
>> compare, curlfilesink, curlftpsink, curlhttpsink, curlsmtpsink,
>> dataurisrc, debugspy, diffuse, dilate, diracparse, dodge, dtmfdetect,
>> dtmfsrc, dtsdec, dvbbasebin, dvbsrc, dvbsuboverlay, dvdspu, exclusion,
>> faad, festival, fisheye, flitetestsrc, fpsdisplaysink, gaussianblur,
>> gdpdepay, gdppay, gmedec, gsmdec, gsmenc, h263parse, h264parse,
>> hlsdemux, id3mux, interaudiosink, interaudiosrc, interlace,
>> intersubsink, intersubsrc, intervideosink, intervideosrc, irtspparse,
>> jifmux, jpegparse, kaleidoscope, liveadder, marble, mimdec, mimenc,
>> mirror, mmssrc, modplug, mpeg4videoparse, mpegpsdemux, mpegtsmux,
>> mpegvideoparse, mpg123audiodec, opusdec, opusenc, opusparse,
>> pcapparse, pinch, pitch, pnmdec, pnmenc, removesilence, rgb2bayer,
>> rotate, rsndvdbin, rtmpsink, rtmpsrc, rtpasfpay, rtpdtmfdepay,
>> rtpdtmfmux, rtpdtmfsrc, rtpmux, rtpopusdepay, rtpopuspay, rtpvp8depay,
>> rtpvp8pay, scaletempo, schrodec, schroenc, sdpdemux, shmsink, shmsrc,
>> sirendec, sirenenc, smooth, solarize, spacescope, spanplc,
>> spectrascope, speed, sphere, square, stretch, synaescope, tsdemux,
>> tsparse, tunnel, twirl, videoparse, videosegmentclip, viewfinderbin,
>> voaacenc, voamrwbenc, waterripple, wavescope, wrappercamerabinsrc,
>> y4mdec, zbar
>>
>> Or:
>> Gstreamer-Decoders: application/sdp; application/x-hls;
>> application/x-rtp, media=(string)audio, payload=(int)[ 96, 127 ],
>> encoding-name=(string){ TELEPHONE-EVENT, X-GST-OPUS-DRAFT-SPITTKA-00
>> }; application/x-rtp, payload=(int)[ 96, 127 ], media=(string)video,
>> encoding-name=(string)VP8-DRAFT-IETF-01; application/x-yuv4mpeg,
>> y4mversion=(int)2; audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int){ 1 }, layer=(int)[ 1,
>> 3 ], parsed=(boolean)true; audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)4,
>> stream-format=(string){ raw, adts }; audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)2;
>> audio/ms-gsm; audio/x-adpcm, layout=(string){ microsoft, dvi };
>> audio/x-ay; audio/x-dts; audio/x-gbs; audio/x-gsm; audio/x-gym;
>> audio/x-hes; audio/x-it; audio/x-kss; audio/x-mod; audio/x-nsf;
>> audio/x-opus; audio/x-private1-dts; audio/x-s3m; audio/x-sap;
>> audio/x-siren, dct-length=(int)320; audio/x-spc; audio/x-stm;
>> audio/x-vgm; audio/x-xm; image/x-portable-anymap;
>> image/x-portable-bitmap; image/x-portable-graymap;
>> image/x-portable-pixmap; video/mpeg, mpegversion=(int){ 1, 2 },
>> systemstream=(boolean){ true, false }; video/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)4,
>> systemstream=(boolean)false; video/mpegts, systemstream=(boolean)true;
>> video/x-cdxa; video/x-dirac; video/x-h263, variant=(string)itu;
>> video/x-h264
>>
>> and
>> Gstreamer-Encoders: application/x-bzip; application/x-gdp;
>> application/x-rtp; audio/AMR-WB; audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)4,
>> stream-format=(string){ adts, raw }, base-profile=(string)lc;
>> audio/x-adpcm, layout=(string){ dvi }; audio/x-gsm; audio/x-opus;
>> audio/x-siren, dct-length=(int)320; image/x-portable-anymap;
>> image/x-portable-bitmap; image/x-portable-graymap;
>> image/x-portable-pixmap; video/mpegts, systemstream=(boolean)true,
>> packetsize=(int){ 188, 192 }; video/x-dirac; video/x-mimic;
>> video/x-mp4-part; video/x-ms-asf, parsed=(boolean)true;
>> video/x-qt-part
>>
>> Together with dependencies all of these pull in, it amounts to a
>> whooping 56 MB. But a lot of these codecs are quite obscure, and there
>> is little reason to support them out of the box.
>>
>> So i'd like to inquire, which are the essential codecs from above set
>> that we'd like to keep for now (until a difference scheme is present
>> to install codecs)?
>>
>> Would it be sufficient to only keep e.g.: h263parse h264parse faad ?

With the video set I have they are indeed the only ones required from
-bad (and should cover most of the cases).

Cheers,
-- 
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo