GStreamer and Rasperry PI

[Richard]

On 20 June 2012 12:58, Richard <tuxbox.guru at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 June 2012 10:01, George Kiagiadakis <kiagiadakis.george at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:06 AM, pauly24 <paul.gangemi86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have gotten GStreamer working on the Raspberry PI as is (Basic install no
>>> hardware accel plugins)
>>>
>>> I've spent the last week trying to get
>>> git://git.collabora.co.uk/git/user/gkiagia/gst-omx0.10-debian.git
>>>
>>> working with it so I can use the broadcom GPU chip on the raspberry.
>>>
>>> But I'm having absolutely on luck at all getting this plug in to work, has
>>> anyone done this or can give me some tips?
>>> Once I install gst-omx it just stays in my blacklisted plugins.
>>>
>>
>> If you are not making debian packages, it would be better to try the
>> "raspberry" branch from the official gst-omx repo. If you use the
>> packaging repository, you either need to build a proper debian package
>> or at least apply the patches and install the required gstomx.conf to
>> /etc/xdg/. If you use the official repo, you also need to copy
>> gstomx-raspberry.conf manually to /etc/xdg/gstomx.conf. When in
>> trouble, remove the registry (rm -rf ~/.gstreamer-0.10) and try again.
>>
>> Regards,
>> George
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>
> Thanks for the Assistance George,
>
> but no cigar..
> I am using Wheezy on the Raspberry and do the following..
>
> git clone -b raspberry git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-omx
> ./autogen --noconfigure
> ./configure --prefix=/home/pi/omx_new
> make
>
> some time later...
>
> export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=/home/pi/omx_new/lib/gstreamer-0.10/
> export GST_OMX_CONFIG_DIR=/home/pi/omx_new/lib/gstreamer-0.10/
> (places a renamed gstomx.conf raspberry version at that location)
>
> rm -rf /home/pi/.gstreamer-0.10
> GST_DEBUG=3 gst-inspect-0.10
>
> --output--
> 0:00:00.055779953  5847   0x3f5400 INFO                GST_INIT
> gst.c:807:init_post: GLib headers version: 2.30.2
> 0:00:00.057348980  5847   0x3f5400 INFO                GST_INIT
> gst.c:456:gst_init_check: initialized GStreamer successfully
> 0:00:00.137307347  5847   0x3f5400 INFO      GST_PLUGIN_LOADING
> gstplugin.c:859:gst_plugin_load_file: plugin
> "/home/pi/omx_new/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstopenmax.so" loaded
> < ... much snipped ...  and stops with the below line>
> 0:00:13.971639795  5847   0x3f5400 INFO      GST_PLUGIN_LOADING
> gstplugin.c:859:gst_plugin_load_file: plugin
> "/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoscale.so" loaded
> --------------
>
> It appears as all the modules are loaded, but hangs querying the caps
> (or something to that order)
>
> Richard


I managed to sort it out... I removed plugins-bad and plugins-ugly and
gst-inspect worked :-P

Richard