Current situation of Python bindings for Gstreamer on Windows?

[Nirbheek Chauhan]

Hi,

Python bindings for GStreamer should work fine on Windows with the
latest Python, and I know of some people who have custom setups to
build everything on Windows.

Unfortunately, we don't have things hooked up in Cerbero for that yet.
There's a pending MR for it:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/cerbero/merge_requests/113,
but it needs a bunch of work to test that it works correctly on all
platforms (including native windows for which we don't have CI yet).

It will happen at some point, but it's looking unlikely for 1.18. If
you're interested in picking up that MR, that would be nice :)

Cheers,
Nirbheek


On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:45 AM QwjN1Y9mJvamZJ <km212121 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> What is the current situation of Python bindings for Gstreamer on Windows?
> I've searched around on the net but most information seems to be outdated.
> Here's what I've found:
>
> 1. Pygobject for Windows is mentioned as one "enabler" for gstreamer python,
> but the project appears to be abandonded and only supports Python versions
> up to 3.3 or 3.4 anyway, which is too restrictive for me. I wonder if
> current gstreamer versions would work with it anyway.
>
> 2. Building my own gst-python (e.g. with Cerbero) requires building
> gobject-introspection (gi) first, but gi doesn't compile on Windows. At
> least I've tried and failed and haven't found any recent tutorial/doc/post
> about building gi on Windows. The gi issue tracker doesn't seem to have
> relevant Windows-related posts, which could mean that either it should build
> and I'm just not doing it well, or that developers' interest in making it
> work on Windows is limited.
>
> 3. There aren't any ready-made packages (pip, conda) with Python bindings
> for Windows.
>
> Did I miss or misunderstood something?
>
> The probably obvious reason why I'm asking is because I'd really like to use
> Gstreamer from a Python project and I'm restricted to Windows. If there's
> nothing else, I can create my own wrapper around the limited functionality I
> need for my own project - an existing, tested solution would be preferred
> and appreciated, though.
>
>
>
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