Hello everybody,

First of all, my ten cents on the subject. Historically E2 was either built with eplayer3 or gstreamer. When I started in this business I had no idea what to choose and what the (dis-)advantages were although I vaguely remember gstreamer was the recommended one. Either choice yielded a working image, and on that level I could not notice any practical differences between the two players either. Then somebody who is much cleverer than I am in this respect, found a way to combine the two and again I had no idea what the (dis-)advantages of that approach would be (one can be that this is the best of both worlds). From then on everybody apparently built E2 with the two framework option, and so did I.

Regarding my git, I simply follow its parent Duckbox Developers maintained by Max in this respect, assuming everything will build without error. Apparently, it does not any more. It is my view that a build option should either work properly or be absent. I will start some research into the matter and perform some test builds. Options that do not build without error will subsequently disappaer from my git, until the the build problem is fixed (if at all possible). This may lead to another situation, namely all three possible image types automatically build with the framework they need (the other two, neutrino and tvheadend use built-in, wrongly spelt in most gits) and with that approach the framework build option would disappear altogether.
Another approach can be to to the latter by definition as building with only gstreamer or eplayer3 brings no advantage anyway, but as stated before I lack the knowledge to make a sound decision on that and therefore would to see some democracy on this.

The reason for the latter is that I tend to keep my git as close as possible to its master, the Duckbox Developers gits maintained by Max. This reduces the amount of handywork to keep it up to date. I hope Max reads all this as well and will leave some feedback on what he would like to see happen.

Starting the first test build now....

Regards,

Audioniek.