source: multimedia/libdriv/gst-plugins.xml@ 721fa00d

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<!ENTITY gst-plugins-download-http "http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins/gst-plugins-&gst-plugins-version;.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY gst-plugins-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gst-plugins/0.8/gst-plugins-&gst-plugins-version;.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY gst-plugins-md5sum        "ea787eeed3761ff03cb60ecebebe1c30">
<!ENTITY gst-plugins-size          "2.4 MB">
<!ENTITY gst-plugins-buildsize     "up to 107 MB (depends on what dependencies are installed)">
<!ENTITY gst-plugins-time          "up to 3.6 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="gst-plugins" xreflabel="gst-plugins-&gst-plugins-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gst-plugins.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Gst-plugins-&gst-plugins-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gst-plugins">
    <primary sortas="a-Gst-plugins">Gst-plugins</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Gst-plugins</title>

    <para>The <application>gst-plugins</application> package builds
    graphics and multimedia CODEC interface modules for the
    <application>GStreamer</application> package. There are over 170 different
    modules that can be built, providing <application>GStreamer</application>
    the capability to create a pipeline for almost every known media
    stream.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gst-plugins-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gst-plugins-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &gst-plugins-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &gst-plugins-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &gst-plugins-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &gst-plugins-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Gst-plugins Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para><xref linkend="gstreamer"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Utilities (Graphics, Compression, Misc.)</bridgehead>
    <para><xref linkend="aalib"/>,
    <ulink url="http://cairographics.org/">Cairo</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="cdparanoia"/>,
    <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
    <xref linkend="GConf"/>,
    <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
    <xref linkend="gnome-vfs"/>,
    <ulink url="http://talinux.fi.tal.org/pub/talinux/sources/Hermes-1.3.3.tar.gz">Hermes</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/">libcaca</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/">libcdio</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/codecs/libcolorspace-pre/">libcolorspace</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="libjpeg"/> or
    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpeg/">MMX Jpeg</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://eetpc20.bd.psu.edu/~rfisher/Research/Libmmx/libmmx.html">libmmx</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="libmng"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.schleef.org/liboil/">liboil</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
    <xref linkend="NASM"/>,
    <xref linkend="pango"/> and
    X (<xref linkend="xfree86"/> or <xref linkend="xorg"/>)</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Audio Libraries/Drivers/CODECs</bridgehead>
    <para><xref linkend="alsa"/>,
    <xref linkend="arts"/>,
    <xref linkend="audiofile"/>,
    <ulink url="https://cvs.comedi.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/audioresample/">audioresample</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="esound"/>,
    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac">FAAC</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac">FAAD2</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="flac"/>,
    <ulink url="http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html">GSM</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/">JACK</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="lame"/>,
    <xref linkend="liba52"/>,
    <ulink url="http://ronald.bitfreak.net/priv/">libamrnb</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://libcdaudio.sourceforge.net/">libcdaudio</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/libdca.html">libdts</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="libmad"/> (and
    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mad/">libid3tag</ulink>),
    <xref linkend="libmikmod"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.musepack.net/">libmpcdec</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.musicbrainz.org/">libmusicbrainz</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="libogg"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.linux1394.org/">libraw1394</ulink> (and
    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libavc1394/">libavc1394</ulink>),
    <ulink url="http://www.icecast.org/">libshout</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/sidplay/">libsidplay</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/">libsndfile</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.ladspa.org/">LADSPA</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="nas"/>,
    <ulink url="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/">polypaudio</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="speex"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.theora.org/">Theora</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html">Tremor</ulink>, 
    <ulink url="http://www.wavpack.com/">WavPack</ulink> and
    <ulink url="http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html">x264</ulink></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Video Libraries/Drivers/CODECs</bridgehead>
    <para><ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dirac/">Dirac</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://directfb.org/">DirectFB</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.divx.com/divx/linux/">DivX4Linux</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/">DXR3</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvd/">libdvdnav</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
    <xref linkend="libfame"/>,
    <ulink url="http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/">libmpeg2</ulink>,
    <ulink url="https://cvs.comedi.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/librfb/">librfb</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/">MJPEG Tools</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/">V4L2</ulink> and
    <xref linkend="xvid"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Multimedia Utilities</bridgehead>
    <para><ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmms">libmms</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libvisual/">libvisual</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="sdl"/>,
    <ulink url="http://swfdec.sourceforge.net/">swfdec</ulink> and
    <xref linkend="xine-lib"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Gst-plugins</title>

    <para>Install <application>gst-plugins</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i 's|LIBS="-lGLU|LIBS="-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGLU|' configure &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To check the results, issue:</para>

<screen><userinput>gst-register &amp;&amp;
make check</userinput></screen>

    <para> On some platforms in certain situations the tests will fail. This
    issue has been reported upstream.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
gst-register</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><command>sed -i '...' configure</command>: The check for the OpenGL
    (Mesa) libraries will fail because the proper directory is not included in
    the search path. This command fixes the problem.</para>

    <para><option>--with-gconf-schema-file-dir=/etc/gnome/gconf/schemas</option>:
    Use this option if you have the <application>GNOME-2</application>
    <application>GConf</application> package installed.</para>

    <para><option>--enable-gdk-pixbuf-loader</option>: Use this option to build
    the GDK pixbuf loader module if you have <application>GTK+-2</application>
    installed.</para>

    <para><option>-enable-xine</option>: Use this option to build the
    <application>Xine</application> wrapper module if you have the
    <application>Xine Libraries</application> package installed.</para>

    <!--
    <para><option>-enable-xine</option>: Using this option to build the
    <application>Xine</application> wrapper module will break the build if you
    have <application>xine-libs</application>-&xine-lib-version;
    installed.</para>
    -->

    <para>Note: all other modules are built if the <command>configure</command>
    script discovers the required dependency package. To prevent a module from
    being built, pass
    <option>--disable-<replaceable>[module]</replaceable></option> to
    <command>configure</command>. Run <command>configure --help</command>
    for all the available module names.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>gst-launch-ext-0.8 and gst-visualise-0.8</seg>
        <seg>libgst*.[so,a], numerous <application>GStreamer</application> plugins,
        and a <application>Gstreamer</application> GDK pixbuf loader module</seg>
        <seg>/etc/gnome/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/system/gstreamer,
        /etc/gnome/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/system/gstreamer,
        and many subdirs of /usr/include/gstreamer-0.8/gst</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gst-launch-ext">
        <term><command>gst-launch-ext-0.8</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to run a basic predefined
          <application>GStreamer</application> pipeline as a quick test to ensure
          proper working of codecs and <application>GStreamer</application>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gst-plugins gst-launch-ext">
            <primary sortas="b-gst-launch-ext">gst-launch-ext-0.8</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gst-visualise">
        <term><command>gst-visualise-0.8</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to run a basic <application>GStreamer</application>
          pipeline to display a graphical visualisation of an audio stream.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gst-plugins gst-visualise">
            <primary sortas="b-gst-visualise">gst-visualise-0.8</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>