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
14 - check output of ./configure --help to see if any options apply to you
20 - if you want to install it (not required), run
22 - You should create a registry for things to work.
23 If you ran make install in the previous step, run
27 If you didn't install, run
31 - try out a simple test:
32 gst-launch fakesrc num_buffers=5 ! fakesink
33 (If you didn't install GStreamer, again prefix gst-launch with tools/)
35 If it outputs a bunch of messages from fakesrc and fakesink, everything is
38 - After this, you're ready to install gst-plugins, which will provide the
39 functionality you're probably looking for by now, so go on and read
44 When building from CVS sources, you will need to run autogen.sh to generate
45 the build system files.
47 GStreamer is cutting-edge stuff. To be a CVS developer, you need
48 what used to be considered cutting-edge tools.
50 ATM, most of us have at least these versions :
52 * autoconf 2.52 (NOT 2.52d)
54 * libtool 1.4 (NOT Gentoo's genetic failure 1.4.2)
57 autogen.sh will check for these versions and complain if you don't have
58 them. You can also specify specific versions of automake and autoconf with
59 --with-automake and --with-autoconf
61 Check autogen.sh options by running autogen.sh --help
63 autogen.sh can pass on arguments to configure - you just need to separate them
64 from autogen.sh with -- between the two.
65 prefix has been added to autogen.sh but will be passed on to configure because
66 some build scripts like that.
68 When you have done this once, you can use autoregen.sh to re-autogen with
69 the last passed options as a handy shortcut. Use it.
71 After the autogen.sh stage, you can follow the directions listed in
72 "COMPILING FROM SOURCE"