no element "uvch264_src"

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 21:39 +0200, Burek Pekaric wrote:

Hi,
 
> I'm a new user of gstreamer and I wanted to compile the latest
> gst-launch in order to use a new "uvch264_src" element, to control my
> logitech c920 webcam.
>  
> Now, I followed instructions at the web page for gstreamer and cloned
> 4 git repositories (3 initial: gstreamer, gst-plugins-base,
> gst-plugins-good and one additional gst-plugins-bad, that was supposed
> to contain "uvch264_src").
>  
> I've built and make installed all of them successfully (at least there
> weren't any critical errors to prevent me from finishing the "make"
> process). But when I run the following command, I get errors like:
>  
> ===================
>  
> # gst-launch-1.0 -v -e uvch264_src device=/dev/video0 auto-start=true
> iframe-period=100 initial-bitrate=320 name=src src.vidsrc !
> 
> 0:00:00.113560130 32359       0xbd4560 ERROR
> GST_PIPELINE ./grammar.y:670:priv_gst_parse_yyparse: no element
> "uvch264_src"
> 0:00:00.113709825 32359       0xbd4560 ERROR
> GST_PIPELINE ./grammar.y:940:priv_gst_parse_launch: Unrecoverable
> syntax error while parsing pipeline uvch264_src device=/dev/video0
> auto-start=true iframe-period=100 initial-bitrate=320 name=src
> src.vidsrc !
> ERROR: pipeline could not be constructed: no element "uvch264_src".

I think the element hasn't been ported to GStreamer 1.0 yet, only the
one in the 0.10 branch is functional.

Cheers
 -Tim