newbie gstreamer sdk problem

[Perdie Perduta]

Thank you Andoni, that solved the problem completely! I had indeed
only done the default installation and didn't realize that would not
include codecs for some common formats.
Also thank you for explaining about setting the GST_DEBUG environment
variable it will be very useful :^)

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Andoni Morales <ylatuya at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/11/16 Perdie Perduta <rsperduta at gmail.com>:
>> Thanks for that info Ralph. I added another / as suggested
>> interestingly now the .avi file plays the sound but sadly still not
>> the video.
>> My .mp4 file still doesn't play at all through gstreamer but is fine
>> in Windows media player.
>>
>> I suddenly wonder if this is because I built a 32 bit application but
>> am running it on a 64 bit OS... I kind of assumed that 64 bit Windows
>> can always run 32 bit apps but maybe that is not so with gstreamer?
>> I'll install the 64 bit version and give it a try now.
>
> That shouldn't be a problem at all. You are probably missing some
> plugins in your installation.
> When you installed the SDK, did you check all options or did you just
> used the default install?
> I am asking because for  H264 decoding, you will need to have the
> ffmpeg plugin installed, which are not installed by default.
> If that's the case, running GST_DEBUG=3 gst-launch-0.10 playbin2
> uri=file:// will show you what's missing.
>
>
>
> Andoni