[gst-devel] gstreamer and swfdec

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 12:48 +0100, Jack Rutherford wrote:

> I am trying to get the swfdec plugin to work, currently I am trying
> this on OS X.
> I have installed gstreamer using MacPorts and then installed
> gst-plugins-good, bad and ugly.
> I could see swfdec 0.6.6 being fetched and built, but when trying to
> construct a pipeline with gst-launch I get the following error
> 
> WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "swfdec"

The GStreamer plugin was written for the libswfdec 0.3.x API, which is
different from the libswfdec 0.6.x API (or the most recent 0.8.x API).
So one answer would be: your swfdec version is too new. However, chances
are the swfdec plugin is seriously bitrotten (if it ever worked at all),
so you should probably look for different ways to play swfdec content,
e.g. via swfdec-player or so. (This does not apply to .flv files though,
GStreamer should handle those just fine). 

Cheers
 -Tim