Using Gstreamer and souphttpsrc in Jupyter Notebook

[Tony Houghton]

Couldn't you just use apt instead of conda?

On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 at 20:48, Jimmy Bush <mr.jimmybush at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I execute
>
>     conda install gst-plugins-good
>
> it causes gstreamer, gst-plugins-base, and gst-plugins good to be
> installed.  All are 1.14.5.  Same behavior, as gst-inspect-1.0 reports "No
> such element or plugin 'souphttpsrc'.
>
> After uninstalling these conda packages, I also attempted to install
> jupyter notebook with pip in my conda workspace.  This installed okay, and
> it didn't break my command line usage of souphttpsrc.  In the notebook,
> however, when I try to gi.require_version("Gst", "1.0"), it gives me an
> error that "Namespace Gst not available", even though I have
> gobject-introspection and pygobject installed.  If this is an easier
> problem to attack, it would let me use 1.16, which might be preferable
> given that a lot of gst_plugins packages aren't available in conda.
>
> Thanks,
> Jimmy
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 1:15 PM Tony Houghton <h at realh.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
>>
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