gst-plugins-good-1.16.0

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# gst-plugins-good-1.16.0

## Introduction to GStreamer Good Plug-ins

The GStreamer Good Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins considered by the GStreamer developers to have good quality code, correct functionality, and the preferred license (LGPL for the plug-in code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library). A wide range of video and audio decoders, encoders, and filters are included.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.0 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-good/gst-plugins-good-1.16.0.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: d1a7b442994d9522418de4af4330e034

- Download size: 3.7 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 97 MB (with tests)

- Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with tests)

### Additional Downloads

- Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/9.0/gst-plugins-good-1.16.0-v4l2_fix-1.patch

### GStreamer Good Plug-ins Dependencies

#### Required

gst-plugins-base-1.16.0

#### Recommended

Cairo-1.16.0, FLAC-1.3.3, LAME-3.100, mpg123-1.25.12, Mesa-19.1.4, gdk-pixbuf-2.38.1, libgudev-233, libjpeg-turbo-2.0.2, libpng-1.6.37, libsoup-2.66.2, libvpx-1.8.1, and Xorg Libraries

#### Optional

AAlib-1.4rc5, ALSA OSS-1.1.8, GTK+-3.24.10 (for examples), GTK-Doc-1.32, libdv-1.0.0, PulseAudio-12.2, Qt-5.13.0, Speex-1.2.0, taglib-1.11.1, Valgrind-3.15.0, v4l-utils-1.16.6, Wayland-1.17.0, JACK, libcaca, libiec61883, libraw1394, libshout, Orc, TwoLame, and WavPack

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gst10-plugins-good

## Installation of GStreamer Good Plug-ins

### Note

If you do not have an Objective-C compiler installed, the build system for this package will emit a warning about a failed sanity check. This is harmless, and it is safe to continue.

### Note

If you need a plugin for a given dependency, that dependency needs to be installed before this package.

Install GStreamer Good Plug-ins by running the following commands:

    patch -Np1 -i ../gst-plugins-good-1.16.0-v4l2_fix-1.patch &&

    mkdir build &&
    cd    build &&

    meson  --prefix=/usr       \
           -Dbuildtype=release \
           -Dpackage-origin=http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/ \
           -Dpackage-name="GStreamer 1.16.0 BLFS" &&
    ninja

To test the results, issue: ninja test. The souphttpsrc test is known to fail.

Now, as the `root` user:

    ninja install

## Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: Several plugins under /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0
Installed Directories: /usr/share/gstreamer-1.0/presets and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-1.0

Last updated on 2019-08-17 15:49:15 -0700

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