[yocto] New gst-player

[Burton, Ross]

On 4 March 2015 at 23:45, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:

> I like that owl has been replaced by gst-player, but I need
> some help figuring out how to get it working :-(  If you ask
> it to play something and it doesn't have the appropriate
> plugins available, it just sits there and acts stupid (no
> error popup, nothing...).  For example, I tried to play a
> MP4 file downloaded from YouTube and it complained:
>   Now playing /home/root/Vlad+Louise.mp4
>   Missing plugin: H.264 decoder
>       ...
>   Missing plugin: MPEG-4 AAC decoder
>       ...
> (those are only the relevant lines which I got by running it
> by hand in a terminal window).
>
> Any idea what I need to get installed to play this file?
>

Yes, we should probably patch it to hook into those signals and show a
dialog with more useful diagnostics.

If you have recent Intel HW, gstreamer-vaapi-1.0 will handle H264 in
hardware.  Otherwise gstreamer-libav has an AAC decoder and a software H264
decoder.

Ross
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