Gstreamer-1.1.4 in /usr/local/lib rather than /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-1.0

[Peter Maersk-Moller]

Must be me then. Testing on Ubuntu 13.04 with the supplied gstreamer-1.0
installed too (prefix=/usr), which can be very confusing. The new version
has prefix=/usr/local.

I'd love to remove the by Ubuntu supplied Gstreamer to avoid confusion, but
that simply breaks too many packages with the Ubuntu package system.
Anyway, remembering 'hash -r' and setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH for /usr/local
(not sure why since /usr/local/lib is in the ld.so.conf list) and setting
/usr/local/bin first, it works well.

Got confused on the difference between the 88 (so far) library files in
/usr/local/lib and the 368 plugin files in /usr/local/lib/gstreamer too. My
mistake. Sorry. However it might be nice if nearly all libraries was in
PREFIX/lib/gstreamer-1.0 for many reasons.
Anyway, case closed.

Thanks.
Peter


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Robert Krakora <
rob.krakora at messagenetsystems.com> wrote:

> Works for me...my libraries reside in <library path>/gstreamer-1.0 for
> 1.1.4 as Tim has indicated.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 13:05 +0200, Peter Maersk-Moller wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> > Compilling and installing gstreamer-1.1.4 plus
>> > base/good/bad/ugly/libavon linux  straight out of the box, I see that
>> > many if not most libraries are installed in /usr/local/lib rather
>> > than /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-1.0 as I believe was the thing gstreamer
>> > 1.0.9 did. Is this a new feature or a small mishap?
>>
>> Libraries get installed into /usr/local/lib (depending on the
>> prefix/libdir), Plugins get installed into /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-1.0/
>> - this should not have changed (and I would be surprised if it did).
>> >
>> > The consequence of installing the libraries by default
>> > in /usr/local/lib rather than /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-1.0 is that
>> > unless you specify the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH, some or
>> > many if not most of the libraries may not be picked up by gst-inspect
>> > and gst-launch as they search in /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-1.0.
>>
>> Yes, you may need to set things up so it gets found, although on most
>> distros that should be the case already for /usr/local.
>> Check /etc/ld.so.conf* and your PATH.
>>
>> Then it depends which libgstreamer-1.0.so gets used, where it will look
>> for plugins. It will only look for plugins in its own prefix, so won't
>> pick up things from other prefixes unless you force it via
>> GST_PLUGIN_PATH.
>>
>> I usually don't recommend you mix from-source installs of GStreamer with
>> from-package installs, since it gets messy soon, esp. if you update the
>> packages then.
>>
>> Cheers
>>  -Tim
>>
>> > After installing the workaround is of course to
>> >
>> >
>> >   a) export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
>> >
>> >   b) rm ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry*
>> >
>> >
>> > and then rerun gst-inspect. There may also be a settings
>> > for ./configure while compiling the gstreamer-1.1.4, but somehow I am
>> > not convinced setting libdir will work without consequences.
>> >
>> >
>> > Another thing is that gst-libav-1.1.4 doesn't seem to have a 'make
>> > uninstall' command as the other packages have.
>> >
>> >
>> > Best regards
>> >
>> > Peter MM
>> >
>> >
>> >
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