[gst-devel] RE: gstreamer problem

[Robert Rosen]

Thanks Wim,

That seems to have done the trick.  There were two things I did, I
downloaded and installed libhermes, then I ran Make on the colorspace
filter.  This time I noticed it putting the binaries into a ".lib" folder.
I then copied those files to my /usr/local/lib/gst directory and ran
gstreamer-register.

I then was able to play mpeg 1 videos.

I did the same with the AVI,QUICKTIME plugins but with less success though.
No cinepak compressor and I know the wrap about Sorenson.  

two questions:
	1. Shouldnt the make files automaticaly copy the .so's and .la's to
the ../lib/gst folder and then execute gstreamer-register?

	2. Do you know if there's a cinepak plugin coming?

Etan



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Wim Taymans [SMTP:wim.taymans at chello.be]
> Sent:	Monday, October 22, 2001 11:41 AM
> To:	Robert Rosen; gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject:	Re: gstreamer problem
> 
> On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 19:46, Robert Rosen wrote:
> > Dear gstreamer developers,
> 
> hello,
> 
> > 
> > I am a relative newbie to Linux and gstreamer although I've been a
> > programmer for 16 years.  Anyways, I've been doing a port of my
> multimedia
> > app to Linux (gnome) and so far havent been successfull with gstreamer.
> I
> > downloaded it and I think I installed it correctly but when I try to use
> the
> > components they fail.  I've compiled the samples (namely helloworld 1
> and 2,
> > gstplay) and they play mp3 files, however they dont play mpeg, quicktime
> or
> > avi files.  They give a these error messages
> > 
> > 1. when using quicktime movie files
> > 	GnomeUI warning: while connecting to session manager
> > 		none of the authentication protocols specified are supported
> 
> no problem with that, it's the gnome session manager that refuses to let
> the gnome app connect to it (different user owning the session manager?)
> 
> > and host base authentication failed
> > 
> > 2. for all - could not create the 'colorspace' element, doing without
> 
> colorspace depends on libhermes. If you install this library the
> colorspace element should compile.
> 
> > 
> > 3. when playing mpeg files: a repeated error message
> > 	gstpad.c  	- 	gst_pad_pull() 	- 	peer != NULL failed
> 
> This usually means a connection between two pads failed. In your case
> I'm betting on the fact that your X server doesn't support Xv images
> (you need at least XFree 4.0 for that) and there is no plugin
> (colorspace) to perform the conversion in software. 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > My assumption thus far was that the installation didnt go so well - or
> some
> > dependancies arent there.  I also speculated that the colorspace filter
> > wasnt regstered but the attempts to register it havent succeeded yet.
> The
> > quicktime failure seems like simply an unsupported codec but perhaps you
> > guys could shed some more light on it.
> 
> quicktime only supports a few codecs ATM so I wouldn't be surprised it
> failed.
> 
> Can you try again with libhermes installed?
> 
> Wim
> 
> > 
> > Any advice?
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > Etan Rosen
> > L3i Interface Technologies
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>