[gst-devel] wxMediaCtrl on Linux

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 10:58 -0200, Steve Cookson wrote:

Hi,

> I have been developing a cross-platform multi-media medical application in
> wxWidgets.  All the original development was done in Windows and I have just
> ported to Kubuntu 9.10.  One of the main components is wxMediaCtrl which is
> and embedded mediaplayer frontend which uses MS Media Player backend on
> Windows or GStreamer on Linux.  
> 
> I've definitely got GStreamer installed because other applications run using
> it. I can even write pieces of code in Perl which call Gstreamer directly
> but I've not got
> wxMediaCtrl running yet. I'm getting error "Got an invalid playbin (error
> 0:Success)".  So what am I missing here? 

That error message looks like it comes from WxMediaCtrl and not
GStreamer. Maybe you're supposed to call gst_init() yourself before
using it? Does gst-inspect-0.10 playbin show something?

Cheers
 -Tim