Gstreamer Video4Linux missing v4l2h264enc

[Hsia-Jun Li]

On 8/17/21 5:22 AM, Nicolas Dufresne via gstreamer-devel wrote:
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> Le jeudi 05 août 2021 à 15:39 -0400, Dwight Kulkarni via gstreamer-devel a
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> We are new to gstreamer and are struggling with one issue.
I think they are using an IMX8M+ platform which doesn't support v4l2 
encoder at all.
>>
>> 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.
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>>
>> 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
>>
>>
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Hsia-Jun(Randy) Li