Using Gstreamer and souphttpsrc in Jupyter Notebook

[Tony Houghton]

It looks like soup is in gst-plugins-good, so try installing that too.

On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 at 17:21, Jimmy Bush <mr.jimmybush at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey, everyone, sorry if this is the wrong forum for this.
>
> I have been working for the last week to run gstreamer inside a Jupyter
> notebook, and for the most part I have been successful.  From the command
> line of Linux Mint 20, I am able to run the 1.16.2 version of gstreamer
> with gst-launch-1.0 call, and I use souphttpsrc and youtube-dl to watch a
> youtube clip.
>
> From
> http://lifestyletransfer.com/how-to-watch-youtube-videos-with-gstreamer/
>
> gst-launch-1.0 souphttpsrc is-live=true location="$(youtube-dl --format
> "best[ext=mp4][protocol=https]" --get-url
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndl1W4ltcmg)" ! decodebin ! videoconvert
> ! autovideosink
>
> Works great.  When I install Jupyter in conda, it pulls 1.14.5 versions of
> gstreamer and gst-plugins-base.  I have been able to pop up the
> videotestsrc within Jupyter Notebook as one would expect.  However, I
> can no longer use souphttpsrc. If I gst-inspect-1.0 souphttpsrc, I get "No
> such element or plugin 'souphttpsrc'".  Same is true if I conda install
> gstreamer by itself.  From my readings, I think that means that
> --enable-soup was not used.
>
> My questions:
> 1) Has anyone gotten this to work?
> 2) Is there a version of gstreamer for conda with soup enabled?
> 3) Should my next step be to build gstreamer locally, enabling soup myself?
> 4) Would there be value in trying to publish a soup-enabled version to
> conda-forge? Would 1.14.5, 1.16.2 or 1.18 be the best candidate should I
> get that far?
>
> I've used Linux for several years, but this would be my first foray into
> contributing to the open source community, so please help with any baseline
> misunderstandings on my part.
>
> Thanks,
> Jimmy
>
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