#1161 outdated versions of gstreamer cause problems with the gdp and …

…matroskademux muxers, the receiver may not be able to process the data and we have no way of knowing what version they have at this point, so just disable those

git-svn-id: https://xpra.org/svn/Xpra/trunk@12356 3bb7dfac-3a0b-4e04-842a-767bc560f471

src/xpra/sound/gstreamer_util.py

@@ -430,6 +430,12 @@ def get_codecs():
             continue
         if force_enabled(encoding):
             log.info("sound codec %s force enabled", encoding)
+        elif len([x for x in elements if (x and (x.find("matroska")>=0 or x.find("gdp")>=0))])>0 and get_gst_version()<(0, 10, 36):
+            #outdated versions of gstreamer cause problems with the gdp and matroskademux muxers,
+            #the receiver may not be able to process the data
+            #and we have no way of knowing what version they have at this point, so just disable those:
+            log("avoiding %s with gdp muxer - gstreamer version %s is too old", encoding, get_gst_version())
+            continue
         elif encoding==FLAC:
             #flac problems:
             if WIN32 and gst_major_version==0: