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

[Geoff Adams]

I did a little more digging and I'm pretty convinced that the problem is
indeed that after GStreamer 1.0.8, a dependency on Pulseaudio >= 2.0 was
added, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise only provides Pulseaudio 1.1. So users
of distros based on Precise are "stuck" on gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
version 1.0.8, with no cairooverlay element.

I'm guessing my best option then will be to go back to using GStreamer 0.10.


On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:

> 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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