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WHAT IT IS
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This is GStreamer, a framework for streaming media. The
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fundamental design comes from the video pipeline at Oregon Graduate
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Institute, as well as some ideas from DirectMedia. It's based on plug-ins
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that will provide the various codec and other functionality. The
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interface hopefully is generic enough for various companies (ahem, Apple)
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to release binary codecs for Linux, until such time as they get a clue and
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release the source.
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COMPILING FROM SOURCE
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- check output of ./configure --help to see if any options apply to you
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- run
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./configure
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make
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to build GStreamer.
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- if you want to install it (not required), run
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make install
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- You should create a registry for things to work.
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If you ran make install in the previous step, run
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gst-register
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as root.
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If you didn't install, run
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tools/gst-register
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as a normal user.
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- try out a simple test:
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gst-launch fakesrc num_buffers=5 ! fakesink
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(If you didn't install GStreamer, again prefix gst-launch with tools/)
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If it outputs a bunch of messages from fakesrc and fakesink, everything is
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ok.
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- After this, you're ready to install gst-plugins, which will provide the
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functionality you're probably looking for by now, so go on and read
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that README.
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COMPILING FROM CVS
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When building from CVS sources, you will need to run autogen.sh to generate
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the build system files.
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2001-12-11 22:55:55 +00:00
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GStreamer is cutting-edge stuff. To be a CVS developer, you need
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what used to be considered cutting-edge tools.
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2001-12-11 23:19:57 +00:00
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ATM, most of us have at least these versions :
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* autoconf 2.52 (NOT 2.52d)
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* automake 1.5
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* libtool 1.4 (NOT Gentoo's genetic failure 1.4.2)
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* pkg-config 0.8.0
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autogen.sh will check for these versions and complain if you don't have
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them. You can also specify specific versions of automake and autoconf with
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--with-automake and --with-autoconf
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Check autogen.sh options by running autogen.sh --help
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autogen.sh can pass on arguments to configure - you just need to separate them
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from autogen.sh with -- between the two.
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prefix has been added to autogen.sh but will be passed on to configure because
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some build scripts like that.
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When you have done this once, you can use autoregen.sh to re-autogen with
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the last passed options as a handy shortcut. Use it.
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After the autogen.sh stage, you can follow the directions listed in
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"COMPILING FROM SOURCE"
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