Problems running examples compiled with Developer Studio 2019 Tools

[Nirbheek Chauhan]

Hi Bob,

Have you already tried with the latest stable release 1.20.3?

In general this should work.

Cheers,
Nirbheek

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 7:19 PM Bob Mackin via gstreamer-devel
<gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org> wrote:
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> I am using GStreamer 1.18.6 on MS Windows professional 10, version 21H2
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> ..>gst-launch-1.0 --version
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> gst-launch-1.0 version 1.18.6
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> GStreamer 1.18.6
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> I’ve been running into repeated problems running gstreamer applications based on examples in the source tree. I checked out a copy of the source tree at this version, and successfully built it. I discovered that I’m encountering the same problems on the examples built with the source tree.
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> For example, a few days ago I submitted this, related to the C# binding:
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> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/issues/1427
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> The example and the code I wrote based on this example crash in exactly the same way, in the same sport
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> Yesterday I was trying to work with gst-rtsp-server, based on the test-mp4.c example. The program ran, accepted connections, but VLC couldn’t connect. Port 8554 is accepting connections and I see the logs indicate something is happening, but vlc times out.
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> Then I  tried test-mp4.c exactly as built, and it had the same problem. Logs at DEBUG=3 look like this in both cases:
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> 0:00:30.149154000  2204 000002ACF229F440 WARN               rtspmedia rtsp-media.c:3576:wait_preroll: failed to preroll pipeline
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> 0:00:30.149928000  2204 000002ACF229F440 WARN               rtspmedia rtsp-media.c:3946:gst_rtsp_media_prepare: failed to preroll pipeline
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> 0:00:30.151523000  2204 000002ACF229F440 ERROR                GST_BUS gstbus.c:1087:gst_bus_remove_watch:<bus2> no bus watch was present
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> 0:00:30.151906000  2204 000002ACF229F440 ERROR             rtspclient rtsp-client.c:1087:find_media: client 000002ACF22A5170: can't prepare media
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> 0:00:30.152698000  2204 000002ACF229F440 ERROR             rtspclient rtsp-client.c:3366:handle_describe_request: client 000002ACF22A5170: no media
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> I tried other examples under rtsp server. Some worked, others  didn’t.
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> Are the MS Visual Studio build tools supported? The error messages are opaque to me, and I’m using example code unmodified, so I don’t even know how to begin getting past this. I’ve had success in the past on Ubuntu, where everything just works.
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> Thanks