Undeprecating libsidplay and fbg

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 22:42:11 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:

> This is not only about free-ness this is also about some multimedia players
> (notably the gstreamer framework) not having libsidplay v2 support.

That's all?

Will it ever support libsidplay v2 or libsidplayfp, if distributions
continue to include libsidplay v1?

Some distributions even build with libsidplay v1 but [cluelessly] link to
the sidplay2 home page.

Building GStreamer only for libsidplay v1 means that it cannot play
.sid files in PSID v2NG and RSID format. That's not very useful.
http://www.hvsc.c64.org/#question9

There's not even any guarantee that it could play all .sid files with
a PSID header, because if that file had been tested in a more capable
SID player only, it could be that it doesn't work with libsidplay v1.
Even the officially registered MIME type for .sid files (audio/prs.sid)
covers RSID files, which would not be supported by GStreamer.

The original message about retiring libsidplay v1 before F18:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-May/167573.html

If you worry just about GStreamer, I think it does a disservice to the
community if it doesn't support any of the later and more capable SID
music playing libs.

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