For questions related with the GStreamer multimedia framework. GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing.
Questions tagged [gstreamer]
242 questions
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GStreamer plugins: "ugly" and "bad"
Why are gstreamer plugins labeled as "bad" and "ugly"?

trv100
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How can I install gstreamer 1.0 in Ubuntu 12.04?
I'm trying to install GStreamer 1.0 on Ubuntu 12.04, the default GStreamer that comes with Ubuntu 12.04 is gst 0.10. I could see that I could download the GStreamer 1.0 source from gstreamer.freedesktop.org, build it and install it. But this…

ansi
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Clarifications about Gstreamer
I'm a bit confused about what Gstreamer does.
Does it come installed by default with Ubuntu ?
If so which version is the default for 14.04?
Does it provide hardware accelerated video playback (decoding) ?
If so does it work with VA-API and…

sdrubish
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gdk-pixbuf-csource tool
When i tried to install gsteditor-0.10.3.2 in my ubuntu 10.10,en error like this appeared in the termina window
configure: error:
* You need the gdk-pixbuf-csource tool which is installed
* from GTK+ 2.0's gdk-pixbuf.
* Either the location where…

Rachana
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missing gstreamer plugin
Whenever i open my webcam with cheese it automatically stops. I think the problem is because of some gstreamer plugins missing. Where can I get this plugin?
The following is the output of gstreamer-properties
sushil@sushil-Vostro-3550:~$…

user215796
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How to copy from one buffer to another in gstreamer?
I am trying to copy from the original buffer buf (in the chain function) to another buffer created using:
GstBuffer *buffer;
glong size;
size = GST_BUFFER_SIZE(buf);
buffer = gst_buffer_new ();
GST_BUFFER_SIZE (buffer) = size;
GST_BUFFER_MALLOCDATA…

varun
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GStreamer error: Gstreamer encountered a general stream error
Today I was trying to watch a video and my GStreamer gave an error massage :
GStreamer error: Gstreamer encountered a general stream error.
How Can I fix this?
Thanks

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Gst-launch script suddenly not working
I have a script for recording output sound [Youtube/Skype] based on gst-launch using a 'pulsesrc device=$monitor' line where the $monitor is parsed via 'pactl stat' and this script worked fine in versions UP to the latest [11.10]. There are no error…

LazyEchidna
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Trying to get gstreamer setup so I can develop against it
I'm trying to get gstreamer setup on my machine so that I can develop applications that use the library. I know that gstreamer is installed on my machine, however, I don't seem to have the proper include files and library files where I would expect…
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Install gstreamer1.0-doc on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS 64 for installing midieditor_3.3.0-1-amd64.deb
Trying to install MidiEditor, I got dependencies not resolved.
vincent@vincent-laptop:~/Applications/MidiEditor$ sudo dpkg -i midieditor_3.3.0-1-amd64.deb
Sélection du paquet midieditor précédemment désélectionné.
(Lecture de la base de données...…

FrViPofm
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Safely uninstalling GStreamer from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I was going to remove the GStreamer app from my Ubuntu environment with these commands:
sudo apt-get remove gstreamer
sudo apt-get purge gstreamer
When I entered the first line I noticed it said it was going to install something:
Terminal…

Ed Delauter
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Gstreamer question
Recently I was learning gstreamer, and I have two questions.
I.
I followed the basic tutorials about the section "HelloWorld". I git
clone the code and use this command on ubuntu: gcc basic-tutorial-1.c -o basic-tutorial-1 pkg-config --cflags…

PDLAOZEI
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linuxdeployqt unable to deploy gstreamer libraries
I have build qt inbuilt project QMediaPlayer from qt examples. and then deployed using linuxdeployqt in linux-1 using below command.
$ linuxdeployqt.appimage ./player -appimage
it genetares lib folder, and plugins folder and .config file.
Now i…
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Which gstreamer package for which file types?
I know that ubuntu-restricted-extras package provides many more multimedia codecs, flash and java support. But it is a big download and I don't need support for file types, Which I am not using now.
So, Does anybody know which gstreamer package…

Anwar
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symbol lookup error: a conceptual questioning
Since I installed ubuntu on my laptop, I have a problem with gstreamer, which affects many programs using it, totem, kdenlive, even gnome-control-center, and prevents them from working.
The error message returned is :
totem: symbol lookup error:…

cory
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