How do I migrate to GStreamer 1.0.5?

Tue Jan 22 01:52:01 PST 2013

Hi Ian,

I don't know how you can solve your problem with RPMs and frankly I
don't want to know.  As I said I don't like messing with RPMs if I don't
have to.  If I want to stick to what my distro puts in their repo
(Fedora 18) than I don't try to bend it.

I proposed you what IMO is a cleaner and better approach, i. e. build
from sources into a *distinct* location and be *consistent* with it.
With this approach not only you can switch between versions/releases as
much has you like but also you can apply and try patches on a daily
basis.  You can also hack around if you like and with help from git you
can branch and try different approaches.  Leave the original packages
where they are and as long as you don't intend to test your distribution
and its tools, stick to your local installation.  This way you can also
switch back to the original distro installation at any point to see if
something behaves differently.  That's my suggestion and it works for me
very well.

I responded to your original post rather than continue the RPM thread
that IMO is going nowhere.

Kris

On 22/01/13 09:39, Ian Davidson wrote:
> I feel as though I am going round in circles getting nowhere.
> 
> I have version 1.0.4 and what I want to do is record an AVI video. It
> does not work.  Part of the problem would appear to be that alsasrc puts
> a zero timestamp on each buffer of samples.  I have been recommended to
> try version 1.0.5.
> 
> I noticed that when 1.0.4 was released, within a day I was able to use
> YUM to update to the new release and it was easy.  1.0.5 has been
> released for 2 weeks now, but has still not appeared in the Fedora
> repositories.
> 
> I first tried to download the sources from the advertised location, but
> (as described below) I could only do the core - the plugin failed
> becasue the core was not there!.  I was then told that I could get the
> new release from a location which appears to be part of Fedora, and by
> following the link, I could see where I could download the RPMs.  I
> downloaded the RPMs I particularly needed and tried to use YUM to update
> them - but YUM appears to complain about a 32 bit version of the
> software (I have only installed the 64 bit versions).
> 
> Would it help if I removed all the packages of gstreamer1 I have
> installed and then install from the RPMs I have downloaded?
> 
> Ian
> 
> On 22/01/2013 08:28, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>> I wouldn't recommend messing with yum installed packages and overwriting
>> them with locally built packages.  This greatly confuses your local
>> package repository manager.
>>
>> I usually install locally built packages into my home folder, e. g.
>> $HOME/opt.  Particularly with GStreamer here's my setup:
>>
>> 1. Get the sources from git repository or a stable packaged version (e.
>> g. 1.0.5)
>>
>> 2. Configure and build each gst* package as follows (no sudo needed):
>> If from git, then for the first time:
>> ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/opt/gstreamer-1.0
>>
>> Else:
>> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/gstreamer-1.0
>>
>> make -j3 install
>>
>> Start with gstreamer (core), than go through gst-plugins-base and all
>> others.
>>
>> 4. Set up the environment
>> In $HOME/.bashrc:
>>
>> function gst-dev {
>>
>>      export PATH=$HOME/opt/gstreamer-1.0/bin:$PATH
>>      export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/opt/gstreamer-1.0/lib
>>      export GI_TYPELIB_PATH=$HOME/opt/gstreamer-1.0/lib/girepository-1.0
>>      export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/opt/gstreamer-1.0/lib/pkgconfig
>> }
>>
>> 5. Enjoy
>> $ gst-dev
>>
>> Make sure you don't have devel packages installed from yum repository.
>> I'm not sure whether it would affect your local build but I wouldn't
>> take the chance.
>>
>> I also tend to use a separate build folder (quite handy when building
>> for multiple platforms or creating a distribution package) but I didn't
>> want to complicate things in the description above.
>>
>> Kris
>>
>> On 21/01/13 17:15, Ian Davidson wrote:
>>> I am using Fedora 18.  Fedora 18 currently has GStreaqmer 1.0.4 in the
>>> repository.  I have 1.0.4 installed using YUM.
>>>
>>> I have downloaded and extracted the tarballs for Gstreamer-core and
>>> gst-plugins-base.
>>>
>>> I have run
>>>
>>>      ./configure
>>>      make
>>>      sudo make install
>>>
>>> on the gstreamer-core and it seemed to work OK.  If I run
>>>
>>>      gst-launch-1.0 --version
>>>
>>> it reports 1.0.5.  I can run a gst-inspect-1.0 on fakesrc, and that also
>>> shows 1.0.5.
>>>
>>> When I try to run ./configure on the gst-plugins-base, it fails because
>>> the latest version of gstreamer I have installed is 1.0.4.
>>>
>>> What step(s) am I missing?
>>>
>>> Ian
>>> -- 
>>> -- 
>>> Ian Davidson
>>>
>>>
>>>
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