<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hello,<br><br></div>I apologize in advance if this is a bit of a newbie question, or if I've come to the wrong place with it -- I'm a scientist, not a software developer. I'm running Linux Mint 13 Maya (based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise), and I installed GStreamer from the gstreamer-developers PPA.<br>
<br>I'm trying to build a GStreamer 1.0 application in Python using a cairooverlay element from the "good" plugins. Although I have the gstreamer1.0-plugins-good package installed, I was surprised to discover that cairooverlay appears to be missing (confirmed with gst-inspect-1.0). After some work trying to track down why, I found that the latest version of this package available in the repository is "1.0.8-1ubuntu1~ubuntu12.04.1~ppa1", and I'm guessing that perhaps cairooverlay had not been ported to 1.0 as of 1.0.8. From this page: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gstreamer-developers/+archive/ppa/+packages">https://launchpad.net/~gstreamer-developers/+archive/ppa/+packages</a> , it seems that the more recent versions of the package have failed to build for Precise. From the build log, it seems like perhaps pulseaudio is the culprit. Unfortunately, I would have absolutely no idea how to go about fixing this problem if I tried to build it from source on my own system.<br>
<br></div>Also unfortunately, a distribution upgrade isn't a good option for me right now. My question is, is there a good way to get a version of gstreamer1.0-plugins-good that has cairooverlay installed on my system? It looks like the Quantal version built fine -- would it be stupid to just try telling my package manager to pull the Quantal repository, or would that probably just completely bork my GStreamer install?<br>
<br></div>Thanks for any advice.<br>Regards,<br>Geoff Adams<br></div>