[yocto] [meta-intel] GStreamer1.0 : gstreamer1.0-plugins-* doesn't extract the codec libraries into GStreamer library path

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 04 December 2014 09:16:42 Ong, Boon Leong wrote:
> Hi Azril,
>                 Thank you for your  question. For meta-intel related
> question, you should channel them to meta-intel M/L.
> Since I catch it here, I have just added it on your behalf. Thanks
> 
> BL
> 
> From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org]
> On Behalf Of Mohd Azril Ahmad
> Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2014 3:50 PM
> To: yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: [yocto] GStreamer1.0 : gstreamer1.0-plugins-* doesn't extract the
> codec libraries into GStreamer library path
 
> Hi all,
> I have successfully built the Yocto with multilib environment by using the
> meta-intel BSP (ValleyIsland). Plus, I'm including the GStreamer1.0 base +
> VAAPI as my default video player.
> During the boot-up time, I've noticed
> that the GStreamer1.0-plugin libraries (good, bad, and ugly) are not
> extracted into the GST library path (/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/). **On
> first, I was looking for "libgstisomp4.so" (to play video with qtdemux
> pipeline) but gst-inspect-1.0 returns nothing. After some investigations,
> I've observed that the bitbake (.bb) and include (.inc) recipe for
> gstreamer1.0-plugins-<good/bad/ugly> does not package out the *.so files
> and I have no choice but to force a .bbappend to install for it by adding :
> 
> FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/gstreamer-1.0/*.so"
> My question here, why the plugin libraries are not extracted ? is it due to
> multilib environment ? or missing packaging steps in default recipe ?

I'm not sure if this is the problem you are experiencing, but if you are 
simply adding gstreamer1.0-plugins-<good/bad/ugly> to your image, that won't 
actually install any plugins. There is a -meta package for each of these which 
does pull in all of the plugin packages (e.g. gstreamer1.0-plugins-good-meta), 
or alternatively you can specify plugin packages individually if you want more 
control.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre