How do I migrate to GStreamer 1.0.5?

[Christian Schaller]

Have you looked at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing

It explains how to enable the testing repo and you should be able to yum
install from there. Since all packages are available then you should be
getting 1.0.5 version


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Ian Davidson
<id012c3076 at blueyonder.co.uk>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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