Universal builds of gstreamer on macosx and osxvideosrc

Sebastian Dröge slomo at circular-chaos.org
Tue Oct 1 02:33:13 PDT 2013


On Mo, 2013-09-30 at 12:39 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Solved!  I was bitten by gst-run.  Evidently gstreamer binaries
> come in two flavors, versioned and unversioned.
> The unversioned one is just an alias for gst-run,
> which then launches the right tool... without arch.
> That's why "arch -i386 gst-inspect" was running the 64 bit
> version.  Doing "arch -i386 gst-inspect-0.10" works as expected.
> 
> (Using lipo -remove to create a thin version of gst-inspect was what clued me
> in... it failed with a message that google found in the source for gst-run.)
> 
> A bug like this was fixed once in gst-plugin-scanner:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615357
> Now I guess a similar fix needs to be applied to gst-run.
> Happily, the workaround is simple, so this isn't urgent.
> 
> I filed https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709125 for this.
> 
> Apologies for bothering the list prematurely!

Don't worry about that :)


So the main problem here still is that osxvideosrc is not ported to work
on 64 bit OSX? Do you know what would be necessary for that, and why it
doesn't just work as is on 64 bits? Would be great if you could file a
bug about that :) Let's get that fixed instead of working around the
problem
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