[gst-devel] Gstreamer on Windows XP

[Mark Nauwelaerts]

On the "Cygwin port":
porting is a bit of a relative term here, at least from GStreamer perspective,
since the Cygwin layer/libs take care of the porting (mostly), and present a
"normal" Unix/POSIX like environment to upper level.

In any case, last time I tried it (1 year ago though), GStreamer core and many
many elements compiled and ran cleanly out-of-the-box on Cygwin (of course in as
far as supporting libraries were available for Cygwin).  Can't speak to now
(though would assume so), nor for all elements.

Regards,
Mark.

Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> Tim Müller wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 05:42 -0600, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
>>
>>>> There's nothing wrong here, it's just that cdparanoiasrc does not run
>>>> on windows - and so it's not included.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if there's an alternative cd-ripping plugin for windows.
>>>> If there is, you could use that. Otherwise, you will need to write
>>>> one.
>>> (..)
>>>
>>> I found some evidence of an attempt 2 years ago to port Gstreamer to
>>> Cygwin,
>>> but it looks as if that effort aborted.  As cdparanoia will run under
>>> Cygwin, such a port would solve the Windows problem.  Does anyone know
>>> the current status of a Cygwin port?
>>>
>>> It would be helpful if statements that the project has ports to Windows
>>> of base releases (such as the one on this page:
>>> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/) included the qualification
>>> that the port does not include cdparanoiasrc.
>> The libcdio-based cdiocddasrc in gst-plugins-good should work on windows
>> (not ideal for ripping though, since it doesn't any kind of
>> sophisticated error correction). However, you might be able to link
>> cdparanoiasrc in -base against the libcdio-based cdparanoia that's
>> included in libcdio. I think it provides an API compatible wrapper.
>> (Mind you, libcdio is GPL not LGPL though.)
> 
> My current thought is that I will execute a command from my program that
> runs cdparanoia and pipes its output to an encoder.  I would have preferred
> to use GStreamer, though.