Missing plugin from gst-plugins-bad

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Many thanks for your reply Philippe. Once I switched across to 20.10
(groovy) it all worked by doing an: apt-get install gstreamer1.0-wpe

On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 12:30 AM Philippe Normand <phil at base-art.net> wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
> On Fri, 2020-12-25 at 10:15 +1100, therecycledrobot at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to use the GstWPE plugin in GStreamer to experiment with
> > HTML/web page based overlays (
> > https://github.com/Igalia/gst-wpe-webrtc-demo). However, I cannot
> > seem to load the plugin, which is contained in the gst-plugins-bad
> > package.
> >
> > The machine is Ubuntu 20.04 and I have installed gst-plugins-bad via
> > "apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad" and have confirmed that it
> > is indeed installed with version 1.16.2-2.1ubuntu1 (and according to
> > the documentation, GstWPE has been included in that package since
> > 1.16, so it should be there).
> >
>
> I don't think GstWPE officially shipped in 20.04. It is available in
> 20.10 though:
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/groovy/gstreamer1.0-wpe
>
> You might be able to find a PPA for 20.04.
> Another option could be to use a Docker setup including GStreamer 1.18
> and the WPE dependencies, such as:
> https://hub.docker.com/r/restreamio/gstreamer
>
> Philippe
>
> > When I check for the existence of its main element, wpesrc, by
> > running "gst-inspect-1.0 wpesrc" it returns "No such element or
> > plugin wpesrc".
> >
> > I have searched wide and far to figure out why it's not working
> > without any success, including reading
> >
> https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/additional/design/missing-plugins.html?gi-language=c
> > but, being a new GStreamer user, I really see anything relevant in
> > there (although I might be mistaken, and would be happy to be
> > corrected). Is there a way to enable/disable specific plugins which I
> > have missed?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matt
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