Adapt Debian package of Totem with Gstreamer backend

[daniel]

We need to take the Debian package of totem-gstreamer, strip out the MP3 library dependency, and use it as a custom package. The formats we need to support playback of at this stage are WAV, Ogg Vorbis, Flac, Theora and Dirac.

[daniel]

See also ticket #16 on Flash support. It may be the best way to support Flash is through a Totem plugin for Firefox.

[daniel]

See also ticket #16 on Flash support. It may be the best way to support Flash is through a Totem plugin for Firefox.

[free]

It seems that in order to drop mp3 support, we have to disable the mad component of the gst-plugins. I'll try it and report.

[free]

I was finally able to build gst-plugins0.8 without libmad. Now I just discovered that I have to rebuild totem too, as it depends on gstreamer-mad. But the build-dependences are broken due to gcc transition. We'll wait.

[free]

Build dependencies are still broken, but the libc as been transitioned. I'll monitor the package closely.

[free]

The last build dependency missing is libarts1-dev, which is waiting for the libjack transition. Postponing to next milestone.

[daniel]

Can we build totem with artsd support disabled? We don't need it anyway, and it's a weird dependency because officially Gnome does not support arts, right?

I note that Ubuntu builds Totem without gstreamer-mad for the same reason that we need to.

[free]

Ok, I've built the package without artsd, grabbing the latest sources (1.2.0) from Debian experimental. They are already in the 64studio repository.