[gst-devel] gstreamer and swfdec

[Jack Rutherford]

Oh, so I am probably barking up the wrong tree :( I was hoping to be
able to use gstreamer to mix the outputs from an swf and a v4l2 source
to create an overlay (animated ticker etc.). Back to the drawing board
I guess?

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 12:48 +0100, Jack Rutherford wrote:
>
>> I am trying to get the swfdec plugin to work, currently I am trying
>> this on OS X.
>> I have installed gstreamer using MacPorts and then installed
>> gst-plugins-good, bad and ugly.
>> I could see swfdec 0.6.6 being fetched and built, but when trying to
>> construct a pipeline with gst-launch I get the following error
>>
>> WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "swfdec"
>
> The GStreamer plugin was written for the libswfdec 0.3.x API, which is
> different from the libswfdec 0.6.x API (or the most recent 0.8.x API).
> So one answer would be: your swfdec version is too new. However, chances
> are the swfdec plugin is seriously bitrotten (if it ever worked at all),
> so you should probably look for different ways to play swfdec content,
> e.g. via swfdec-player or so. (This does not apply to .flv files though,
> GStreamer should handle those just fine).
>
> Cheers
>  -Tim
>
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