3 This is GStreamer, a framework for streaming media. The
4 fundamental design comes from the video pipeline at Oregon Graduate
5 Institute, as well as some ideas from DirectMedia. It's based on plug-ins
6 that will provide the various codec and other functionality. The
7 interface hopefully is generic enough for various companies (ahem, Apple)
8 to release binary codecs for Linux, until such time as they get a clue and
13 - check output of ./configure --help to see if any options apply to you
19 - if you want to install it (not required), run
21 - You should create a registry for things to work.
22 If you ran make install in the previous step, run
26 If you didn't install, run
30 - try out a simple test:
31 gst-launch fakesrc num_buffers=5 ! fakesink
32 (If you didn't install GStreamer, again prefix gst-launch with tools/)
34 If it outputs a bunch of messages from fakesrc and fakesink, everything is
37 - After this, you're ready to install gst-plugins, which will provide the
38 functionality you're probably looking for by now, so go on and read
43 When building from CVS sources, you will need to run autogen.sh to generate
44 the build system files.
46 GStreamer is cutting-edge stuff. To be a CVS developer, you need
47 what used to be considered cutting-edge tools.
49 ATM, most of us have at least these versions :
51 * autoconf 2.52 (NOT 2.52d)
53 * libtool 1.4 (NOT Gentoo's genetic failure 1.4.2)
56 autogen.sh will check for these versions and complain if you don't have
57 them. You can also specify specific versions of automake and autoconf with
58 --with-automake and --with-autoconf
60 Check autogen.sh options by running autogen.sh --help
62 autogen.sh can pass on arguments to configure - you just need to separate them
63 from autogen.sh with -- between the two.
64 prefix has been added to autogen.sh but will be passed on to configure because
65 some build scripts like that.
67 When you have done this once, you can use autoregen.sh to re-autogen with
68 the last passed options as a handy shortcut. Use it.
70 After the autogen.sh stage, you can follow the directions listed in
71 "COMPILING FROM SOURCE"