Undeprecating libsidplay and fbg

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 04/08/2013 12:01 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 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.

Ok, you've got me convinced, I'll closing the review request and look into
porting the gstreamer plugin ti sidplay v2.

Regards,

Hans