[gst-devel] h264 plugins for gstreamer 0.8.10

[Felipe Contreras]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Victor lyamtsev <vlyamtsev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  Is there h264 plugins for gstreamer-0.8.10 ( That's the only version
>>> I could make to work for RedHat EL 4 )?
>>>   Can someone tell me what decoder element I can use - I don't see "x264
>>>   decoder" plugin with 'gst-inspect'?
>>>   Should I search for that plugin?
>>>   Another question: Does Gstreamer plugin contain codec, or does it only
>>>   provide interface to it?
>>>   E.g. Do I  have to install x264 codec prior to plugin?
>>
>> You should use 0.10.x.
>>
>> If that's not on the system I'm afraid you would need to compile
>> GStreamer and it's dependencies, or get RH to update it.
>
> I can't compile gstreamer 0.10.x for RedHat EL 4: it comes with glib
> 2.3.4, 0.10.x requires version >=2.6,
> later versions of glib require later versions of pkg-config, etc.
> Thanks anyway,

That's the disadvantage of using an incredibly old distribution. But
still, you can compile pkg-config, glib and gst in /opt/foo, there are
not many dependencies.

Check for example the instructions to compile for embedded[1] probably
you would only need +pkg-config:
http://www.gstreamer.net/wiki/HowToCompileForEmbedded

-- 
Felipe Contreras