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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am trying to run a pipe line that works on my machine on a colleague’s machine with the same hardware and software set up, using Ubuntu 16.04 and compiling gstreamer from source.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The pipeline works on my machine but not on their machine.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There seems to be a problem with the mfxh264enc plugin.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am getting the following error<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>gst-launch-1.0 -v -e mpegtsmux name=m ! hlssink target-duration=5 souphttpsrc location="http://127.0.0.1:8000/routestream/4" ! qtdemux ! h265parse ! mfxhevcdec ! videoconvert ! mfxvpp width=1280 height=720 ! mfxh264enc ! "video/x-h264, stream-format=byte-stream, profile=high" ! m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstMfxEncH264:mfxench264-0: Could not initialize supporting library.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Additional debug info:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>gstvideoencoder.c(1627): gst_video_encoder_change_state (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstMfxEncH264:mfxench264-0:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Failed to open encoder<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Setting pipeline to NULL ...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Freeing pipeline ..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>I googled the error message. I found something about not having enough gpu memory. I used lspci to check the gpu information on both machines and lspci reports identical information for the intel GPU that is being used on both machines.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>lspci -v -s 0:02.0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Subsystem: Intel Corporation Skylake Integrated Graphics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 127<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> I/O ports at 1c00 [size=64]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Capabilities: <access denied><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Kernel driver in use: i915<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Kernel modules: i915<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I suspect something is misconfigured but I am not sure what. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I run gnome on my machine but I am trying to run my colleague’s system in a headless mode by using ssh to access the command line. I am not sure if that has anything to do with it but that is the main difference between how I am trying to run the pipeline.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Has anybody seen something like this before?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What support library does the x264 encoder need?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any trouble shooting tips?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'>Rand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>