<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Pete,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">GStreamer has a special script for alternative version builds. I have the steps summarised here:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://developer.ridgerun.com/wiki/index.php?title=Setting_a_GStreamer_Alternative_Environment" class="">http://developer.ridgerun.com/wiki/index.php?title=Setting_a_GStreamer_Alternative_Environment</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Remember to set the BRANCH variable in the create-uninstalled-setup.sh to the desired value before the build. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Michael<br class=""> <br class=""><div class=""> <div class=""><div class=""><font size="1" class="">—</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Michael Gruner <<a href="mailto:michael.gruner@ridgerun.com" class="">michael.gruner@ridgerun.com</a>></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Embedded Linux and GStreamer solutions</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">RidgeRun Engineering</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Contact Us - <a href="http://www.ridgerun.com/#!contact/c3vn" class="">http://www.ridgerun.com/#!contact/c3vn</a></font></div></div> </div> <br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 2, 2016, at 15:16, Pete Wassertal <<a href="mailto:pewas@gmx.at" class="">pewas@gmx.at</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""> <br class="">Hello,<br class=""> <br class="">I need the current stable Gstreamer release in my Ubuntu 14.04 system. Since I can't find a source to install pre-built packages via apt I try to build everything from source. Currently I have a working 1.6.3 installation.<br class=""> <br class="">Here is what I do:<br class=""> <br class="">I get:<br class="">gst-plugins-base-1.8.3.tar.xz, gst-libav-1.8.3.tar.xz, gstreamer-1.8.3.tar.xz, gst-plugins-good-1.8.3.tar.xz, gst-plugins-bad-1.8.3.tar.xz, gst-plugins-ugly-1.8.3.tar.xz<br class="">from <a href="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/" class="">https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/</a><br class="">and unpack them.<br class=""><br class="">I'm building the packages in the order gstreamer - plugins-base - libav - plugins-good - plugins-bad - plugins-ugly<br class="">with the following commands: <br class="">./autogen.sh; make; sudo make install<br class=""><br class="">Everything works without error messages.<br class=""><br class="">When everything is done I try to verify the installed version:<br class="">$ gst-launch-1.0 --version<br class="">and I get the answer:<br class="">gst-launch-1.0 version 1.8.3<br class="">GStreamer 1.6.3<br class="">Unknown package origin<br class=""><br class="">1.6.3 still seems to be active!<br class=""><br class="">The next check:<br class="">dpkg -l | grep gstreamer<br class="">shows 1.6.3 versions of all relevant packages too.<br class=""><br class="">I'm doing this because I need the nvenc element, which isn't available according to gst-inspect after doing this (logs seem to indicate that they were built correctly).<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">What am I doing wrong? Are pre-built packages available somewhere?<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Thanks<br class=""><br class="">Pete<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">gstreamer-devel mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" class="">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br class="">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>