[yocto] Squeezing a gstreamer video pipeline into the smallest footprint possible

[Patrick Doyle]

Thank you for the tips folks... please keep them coming.  At the moment
(for this pinhole sized project) I only need support for video.  Is
there any way to strip out all of the audio components from the
gstreamer I generate?  I tried adding --disable-vorbis to my recipe,
only to find that config.status shows that both --disable-vorbis and
--enable-vorbis options we set in ac_cs_config.

In the mean time, I'm going to go build my own pipeline & link it
statically as suggested by Sebastian.

Thank you again.

--wpd


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> On 9 April 2014 00:03, Patrick Doyle <wpdster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a ridiculously pinhole sized memory footprint into which I
>> would like to squeeze a gstreamer based video pipeline.  I am looking
>> for tips on what I can do to minimize the footprint as much as
>> possible for my Yocto based system.
>
> The GStreamer plugins and libraries are all packaged independently in
> Yocto, so you can do some heavy size reduction by just installing the
> packages you need, and double-checking that nothing unexpected gets
> pulled in via dependencies.
>
> Ross