gstreamer1.0-plugins-good package on devel PPA for Ubuntu Precise

[Dan Kegel]

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717913 may be related?

On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Geoff Adams <geoff.adams at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I apologize in advance if this is a bit of a newbie question, or if I've
> come to the wrong place with it -- I'm a scientist, not a software
> developer.  I'm running Linux Mint 13 Maya (based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
> Precise), and I installed GStreamer from the gstreamer-developers PPA.
>
> I'm trying to build a GStreamer 1.0 application in Python using a
> cairooverlay element from the "good" plugins.  Although I have the
> gstreamer1.0-plugins-good package installed, I was surprised to discover
> that cairooverlay appears to be missing (confirmed with gst-inspect-1.0).
> After some work trying to track down why, I found that the latest version of
> this package available in the repository is
> "1.0.8-1ubuntu1~ubuntu12.04.1~ppa1", and I'm guessing that perhaps
> cairooverlay had not been ported to 1.0 as of 1.0.8. From this page:
> https://launchpad.net/~gstreamer-developers/+archive/ppa/+packages , it
> seems that the more recent versions of the package have failed to build for
> Precise.  From the build log, it seems like perhaps pulseaudio is the
> culprit.  Unfortunately, I would have absolutely no idea how to go about
> fixing this problem if I tried to build it from source on my own system.
>
> Also unfortunately, a distribution upgrade isn't a good option for me right
> now.  My question is, is there a good way to get a version of
> gstreamer1.0-plugins-good that has cairooverlay installed on my system?  It
> looks like the Quantal version built fine -- would it be stupid to just try
> telling my package manager to pull the Quantal repository, or would that
> probably just completely bork my GStreamer install?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
> Regards,
> Geoff Adams
>
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