[gst-devel] gstreamer-devel Digest, Vol 48, Issue 37

[Edward Hervey]

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 15:24 +0530, abhisek shaw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been trying to play Youtube videos using gstreamer but have not
> been successful in doing so.From what i could figure out, swfdec
> plug-in is required to play youtube vides because youtube supports
> flash video. As per gstreamer plug-in overview page, this plug-in
> should be available in "bad plugins". This plug-in has some external
> dependecy on libswfdec. Even after installing this library, this
> plug-in does not show in the list of the elements. The configure
> script in "bad plug-ins" searches for 0.3 version of swfdec, which is
> already obsolete. I have tried bypassing this , but "swfdec" plug-in
> is still not built.
> 
> I have tried the following pipelines.
> 
> gst-launch-0.10 souphttpsrc
> location="http://www.youtube.com/v/6R0NJMGVjf4?f=videos&c=gdataSample-YouTube-1&app=youtube_gdata"  ! decodebin ! ximagesink

  Don't do it like that. Use libgdata to get the flv/mp4 video link.
That url is for the flash player (and not for the actual video file).
  That's how the totem youtube plugin does it and it works like a charm.
Go check how they do it.

   Edward

 
> 
> Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
> Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
> ERROR: from
> element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/ffdemux_swf:ffdemux_swf0: GStreamer encountered a general supporting library error.
> Additional debug info:
> gstffmpegdemux.c(1243): gst_ffmpegdemux_open
> (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/ffdemux_swf:ffdemux_swf0:
> Input/output error
> ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll.
> Setting pipeline to NULL ...
> Freeing pipeline ...
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Shaw
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