gstreamer on Android not working

[Stuart Marshall]

It would be neat if somebody were to make a gst-inspect for android that ran as a natural android app. E.g. make it an activity with a UI. I took a quick peek at the gst-inspect code. It looked like it has a lot of assumptions that it is running on a unix-y command-line. It could, with some effort, be factored such that the core bits were abstracted from shell IO so that it could be wrapped in an android (or ios or whatever) shell. (I wish I had time to do this myself.)

Stuart

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From: gstreamer-android [mailto:gstreamer-android-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian Dröge
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 5:30 AM
To: Discussions about GStreamer on Android <gstreamer-android at lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: gstreamer on Android not working

On Mi, 2016-03-23 at 17:48 +0530, Ananda Sagar M wrote:
> Thank you for your valuable input. I have configured $PATH, 
> $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, $PKG_CONFIG_PATH, $GST_PLUGIN_PATH on the target.
> Is there any way i can make sure gst-inspect-1.0 is in executable 
> format or not, or does android executes only statically linked 
> binaries ?

You have to get root permissions and store the executable in a place that allows execution. Then use chmod to make it executable.

> In the other approach you have mentioned, we use the built in 
> gstreamer libraries to generate a single .so file which we can use in 
> in our android java application. But is there a way to build all the 
> gstreamer related libraries, executables from source for android apart 
> from the way i have been trying ? If so please shed some light in that 
> direction, it would be of great help.

cerbero is used for building the GStreamer binaries provided by the project. Check the README:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/cerbero/

The binaries created by this contain ndk-build stuff for usage like in the Android app I linked to in the previous mail. Which will create a single, big shared library with everything to be used from the application.

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