Please remove gstreamer0.10-pitfdll as a dependency (recommend

on natty i386 all the wmv files fail to play; after removing/purging this gstreamer0.10-pitfdll then totem can play wmv files.

Please note that this is not a 'request' to fix the plugin, nor remove it from the repo. Simply to just remove pitfdll from the deps of u-r-a
( this is yet again another example of the unwillingness of ubuntu/debian maintainers to mitigate user issues from upstream bugs, I guess user experience is not as important as it's made out to be.

is that may be changed into Oneiric cycle ? its not so hard to mod ubuntu-restricted-extras.

orry about#3 typo, meant ubutu-restriced-addons f course

Can we get this change made for Precise ?
Actually u-r-a 10 still recommand gstreamer0.10-pitfdll and often needs to be uninstalled to avoid conflicts.

Could you please tell us which ffmpeg/libav library provides this support before we make this change?

Here is what pitfdll provides
dshowdec_ir50_32v5: DS ir50_32 decoder version 5
  dmodec_wmv9dmodv3: DMO wmv9dmod decoder version 3
  dmodec_wmvdmodv1: DMO wmvdmod decoder version 1
  dmodec_wmvdmodv2: DMO wmvdmod decoder version 2
  dmodec_wmvdmodv3: DMO wmvdmod decoder version 3
  dmodec_wmadmodv1: DMO wmadmod decoder version 1
  dmodec_wmadmodv2: DMO wmadmod decoder version 2
  dmodec_wmadmodv3: DMO wmadmod decoder version 3
  dmodec_wmspdmodv1: DMO wmspdmod decoder version 1
 dshowdec_ir41_32v4: DS ir41_32 decoder version 4
  qtadec_bin: quicktime binary audio decoder

All but the last two are definitely provided by the gst ffmpeg plugin, not sure about Indeo4 & the qta

$ gst-inspect plugin ffmpeg |grep wma
  ffenc_wmav1: FFmpeg Windows Media Audio 1 encoder
  ffenc_wmav2: FFmpeg Windows Media Audio 2 encoder
  ffdec_wmapro: FFmpeg Windows Media Audio 9 Professional decoder
  ffdec_wmav1: FFmpeg Windows Media Audio 1 decoder
  ffdec_wmav2: FFmpeg Windows Media Audio 2 decoder
  ffdec_wmavoice: FFmpeg Windows Media Audio Voice decoder

gst-inspect plugin ffmpeg |grep indeo
  ffdec_indeo2: FFmpeg Intel Indeo 2 decoder
  ffdec_indeo3: FFmpeg Intel Indeo 3 decoder
  ffdec_indeo5: FFmpeg Intel Indeo Video Interactive 5 decoder

Note that this bug was filed during 10.10 dev

The current state of pitfdll in 11.10
If it is installed it currently can prevent playback of wmas, with it not installed then gst will use ffmpeg to properly decode thru wmavoice

The current state of pitfdll in 12.04
non-functional, "gst-inspect plugin pitfdll" returns 0 elements

So at this point your choice as to whether include as a dep, keeping in mind that 32 bit users are free to install w32codecs & the pitfdll package, as are they free to uninstall the pitfdll package...

Should have filled in the wm* w/ wmv
gst-inspect plugin ffmpeg |grep wmv
  ffdec_wmv3: FFmpeg Windows Media Video 9 decoder
  ffdec_wmv2: FFmpeg Windows Media Video 8 decoder
  ffdec_wmv1: FFmpeg Windows Media Video 7 decoder
  ffenc_wmv2: FFmpeg Windows Media Video 8 encoder
  ffenc_wmv1: FFmpeg Windows Media Video 7 encoder

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-restricted-addons - 12

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ubuntu-restricted-addons (12) precise; urgency=low

  * Add armhf files based on the armel files
  * Remove gstreamer0.10-pitfdll as it will probably be removed from the archive
    shortly (see LP#920254) as it was just removed from Debian (LP: #621857)
 -- Micah Gersten <email address hidden> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:16:31 -0600