n00b wants to play movie to quicktime over net

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

Hi,

----- Original message -----

> but no love from a simple playbin pipe
> 
> {{{
> $ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///root/rtsp/test.mov 
> Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
> Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
> ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-h264,
> stream-format=(string)avc, alignment=(string)au, level=(string)4,
> profile=(string)constrained-baseline,
> codec_data=(buffer)0142c028ffe100236742c028f403c0113f2e022000007d000017701c00000301c9c3800005f5e11779705001000468ce3c80,
> width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, framerate=(fraction)2997/100,
> pixel-aspect-ratio=(fraction)1/1 Missing element: H.264 decoder **
> Message: don't know how to handle audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)4,
> framed=(boolean)true, stream-format=(string)raw, level=(string)2,
> base-profile=(string)lc, profile=(string)lc, codec_data=(buffer)1210,
> rate=(int)44100, channels=(int)2 Missing element: MPEG-4 AAC decoder
> ERROR: from element /GstPlayBin:playbin0: You do not have a decoder
> installed to handle this file. You might need to install the necessary
> plugins. 

You seem to be missing an AAC audio decoder (faad from gst-pluins-bad) and a h.264 video decoder (ffdec_h264 from gst-ffmpeg, or some other decoder if you're on an embedded system.

Cheers
 -Tim