Gstreamer Video4Linux missing v4l2h264enc

[Nicolas Dufresne]

Le jeudi 05 août 2021 à 15:39 -0400, Dwight Kulkarni via gstreamer-devel a
écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> We are new to gstreamer and are struggling with one issue. 
> 
> We are using gstreamer-1.0 and after installation, we check it with gst-
> inspect-1.0  and there is video4linux2 that is part of gst-plugins-good
> package. 
> 
> However, we are looking for the v4l2h264enc element and this is not present.

This element will only be present if you have enabled gudev support in your
build and driver is prevent and working in your Linux Kernel.

> 
> Is there something we must do to enable this element ?  
> 
> I am attaching the output below:
> 
> gst-inspect-1.0 video4linux2
> Plugin Details:
>   Name                     video4linux2
>   Description              elements for Video 4 Linux
>   Filename                 /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstvideo4linux2.so
>   Version                  1.16.2

Please consider current stable release 1.18.4.

>   License                  LGPL
>   Source module            gst-plugins-good
>   Source release date      2019-12-03
>   Binary package           GStreamer Good Plug-ins source release
>   Origin URL               Unknown package origin
> 
>   v4l2src: Video (video4linux2) Source
>   v4l2sink: Video (video4linux2) Sink
>   v4l2radio: Radio (video4linux2) Tuner
>   v4l2deviceprovider: Video (video4linux2) Device Provider
>   v4l2convert: V4L2 Video Converter
> 
>   5 features:
>   +-- 4 elements
>   +-- 1 device providers
> 
>