[gst-devel] Problem Installing GStreamer Plugins

[Marc Ferguson]

Thanks Felipe,

How do you know which flavor of plugins to use though.  I went to
gstreamers web site and it didn't really go into details what each
package was - just some legal mumbo jumbo.

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 18:27 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Marc Ferguson <marc at fergytech.net> wrote:
> >
> >  Hi,
> >
> >  I'm running Fedora 8 and it came with gstreamer-0.10.15-3.  I wanted the
> >  latest version because my DVD codex wasn't working using Totem.  So; I
> >  uninstalled anything that had gstreamer in it and I downloaded
> >  gstreamer-0.10.19, gst-plugins-base.0.10.19, and gst-python-0.10.11.
> 
> You need gst-plugins-ugly and perhaps gst-plugins-bad. You can find
> them in rpm.livna.org.
> 
> >  I didn't have a problem installing gstreamer, I extracted the source
> >  to /usr/local/src and did ./configure, make, make install.  I extracted
> >  the other two files there to, but when I do configure they're giving me
> >  errors, thus not having a make file ready.
> 
> It doesn't matter where you extract the source.
> 
> If you want to know if GStreamer was properly installed you need to do this:
> pkg-config --modversion gstreamer-0.10
> 
> >  =====
> >  gst-plugins-base.0.10.19 = checking for LIBOIL... configure: error:
> >  liboil-0.3.8 or later is required
> >  =====
> >  I checked Fedora's package manager and it has a later version of liboil
> >  installed.
> 
> You need liboil-devel.
> 
> Again, you can check with:
> pkg-config --modversion liboil-0.3
> 
> >  ====
> >  checking for GST... configure: error: Package requirements
> >  (gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.12) were not met.
> >  ====
> >  I just installed a latest version of gstreamer!?
> 
> Apparently not correctly.
> 
> Best regards.
> 

Marc F.
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