Questions tagged [gstreamer]

For questions related with the GStreamer multimedia framework. GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing.

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how to record audio and video in gstreamer

I am new to gstreamer, I want to record both audio and video save it into .mp4 format, Recording video using webcam and audio using MIC Here this is my pipeline gst-launch-1.0 -e v4l2src ! queue ! ...
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Wine: using webcam with Cisco Jabber Video client

I'm trying to use Cisco Jabber Video client (https://www.ciscojabbervideo.com/home) with Wine but I'm unable to get the webcam to work. Steps that I have completed this far: Register an account for ...
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Install gstreamer1.0-doc on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS 64 for installing midieditor_3.3.0-1-amd64.deb

Trying to install MidiEditor, I got dependencies not resolved. vincent@vincent-laptop:~/Applications/MidiEditor$ sudo dpkg -i midieditor_3.3.0-1-amd64.deb Sélection du paquet midieditor précédemment ...
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Receiving and sending udp stream with one gst-launch-1.0 (gstreamer) command

On an Ubuntu 18.04 laptop, I can receive a stream with the following gst-launch-1.0 commands: The stream source (from a test brd that generates a test pattern): $ gst-launch-1.0 -e videotestsrc ! ...
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mirror of active window by gstreamer

I can make a mirror of an active window by gstreamer: (Mirroring the currently focussed window) gst-launch-1.0 ximagesrc xid=<window_id> ! videoconvert ! autovideosink then I moved it on a ...
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How to handle gstreamer missing codecs

I experience the issue of missing codecs for popular video containers like mp4 and avi both when using gstreamer on the command line as well as when trying to run sample playbin code (details per each ...
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How to use GStreamer to play an mp4 video?

I want to use GStreamer on ubuntu 21.04. Here is what I have attempted: user@host:~$ gst-launch-1.0 -v playbin uri=file:///home/user/thisVideo.mp4 Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
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Cheese do not start due "GStreamer elements are missing: cluttervideosink"

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu Gnome 14.04, and when I tried to use cheese, it showed the message One or more needed GStreamer elements are missing: cluttervideosink Cheese worked just fine in 13.10 ...
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Webcam not working on desktop with failed to allocate required memory

I have a nexigo hd webcam that works on my work laptop (running Ubuntu), but which fails on my desktop (also running Ubuntu). I'm sure I've got something misconfigured on my desktop, but I'm at a ...
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Safely uninstalling GStreamer from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

I was going to remove the GStreamer app from my Ubuntu environment with these commands: sudo apt-get remove gstreamer sudo apt-get purge gstreamer When I entered the first line I noticed it said it ...
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gnome-control-center: symbol lookup error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstvideo-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gst_aggregator_simple_get_next_time

A few days back I was trying to build wxWidgets-3.15 library on Ubuntu 21.04 with multiple flags enabled. I've had some issues with the build so I made a ticket on that on stackoverflow. Unfortunately,...
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS Totem video player crashes on launch

The Totem video player is crashing on launch, it was working yesterday but now it stopped working. Launching it from terminal gives me this: (totem:33272): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 16:29:23.486: ...
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DVD cannot be read in Xubuntu Linux 22.04

There is an issue with reading DVDs in Xubuntu. I am running Xubuntu Linux 22.04 on a 2010 MacBook Pro. I am trying to play a regular DVD with encrypted copyright protection (not Blu Ray). Whenever I ...
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How can I fix this GStreamer update bug on a fresh install of Kubuntu 23.04?

I've got a brand new Lenovo Ideapad which I just installed KUbuntu 23.04 onto. However, the package manager isn't updating everything. Specifically three packages, all related to GStreamer, are ...
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Gstreamer question

Recently I was learning gstreamer, and I have two questions. I. I followed the basic tutorials about the section "HelloWorld". I git clone the code and use this command on ubuntu: gcc ...
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How to install the avtp plugin from GStreamer in Ubuntu?

My system environment: A PC with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS; GStreamer version: 1.16.3 I would like to install the AVTP plugin from GStreamer. I tried these: I have used the following commands to install ...
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linuxdeployqt unable to deploy gstreamer libraries

I have build qt inbuilt project QMediaPlayer from qt examples. and then deployed using linuxdeployqt in linux-1 using below command. $ linuxdeployqt.appimage ./player -appimage it genetares lib folder,...
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How can I get the MPEG-TS support for GStreamer?

Trying to play a MPEG-TS stream with gst-play in a 22.04 box, I get: Missing decoder: MPEG-2 Transport Stream (video/mpegts, systemstream=(boolean)true, packetsize=(int)188) while it works fine in ...
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Problem with video app with common black triangle

I have big problem with common black triangle if I recorded from screen recorder then it shows a black triangle. Why does it use black triangle in video files? How do I remove black triangle? I use ...
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Proper installation of gstreamer1.0-vaapi

Okey guys here is my problem for the past few weeks Iam trying to use vaapi.I have intel i5 processor (Wayland) which supports vaapi but for some strange reason I can't make it working also I run 14....
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Avi video will not display properly with either the Videos program or with matlab's VideoReader, but it displays perfectly fine in vlc

I am trying to load up some videos (avi files) into matlab to analyze them a bit; I recorded them using myCam 1.1 on Windows 7. I would like to analyze them on my linux computer; however, when I use ...
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Play FLV videos in Ubuntu 16.04: what's the (gstreamer?) package(s) I need to install to make Totem do it without error?

I thought I had installed all "proprietary" codecs now via double-clicking some of my videos, and Totem asking me to install packages. However there's a kind of videos which don't prompt me to install ...
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Unable to uninstall GStreamer multimedia codec

Every time I try to uninstall GStreamer Multimedia Codecs from the Ubuntu Software Centre, it tells me I can't uninstall GStreamer Multimedia Codecs as its held by process 44958 (apt). In the terminal ...
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How can I install Nvidia Gstreamer plugins (nvenc, nvdec) on Ubuntu 20.04

I do like to accelerate GStreamer by making use of my GPU card, I have seen this tutorial, but it seems to be outdated! Nvidia Video Codec SDK doesn't have include folder to copy anymore, moreover I ...
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Can't get aptX codec to work in ubuntu 22.04

I recently installed ubuntu 22.04. I have been trying to get aptX codecs to work for my bluetooth earbuds (momentum wireless 2), but they do not show up in the list of codecs. I have tried installing ...
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All kinds of music players cannot play m4a files, throwing "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in."

So I've carefully checked all those similar questions posted, tried their solutions. Just in case that I've missed anything, here are the packages info for gstreamer installation: Also ubuntu-...
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Is GStreamer available for Ubuntu 21.04, and if it is, then how to install it?

My first attempt to install GStreamer on Ubuntu 21.04 looks like this: user@localhost:~$ sudo apt install gstreamer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state ...
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missing gstreamer plugin [closed]

Whenever i open my webcam with cheese it automatically stops. I think the problem is because of some gstreamer plugins missing. Where can I get this plugin? The following is the output of gstreamer-...
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How can I resolve multi-arch conflict (liborc-0.4-dev)?

When trying to install the package liborc-0.4-dev together with liborc-0.4-dev:arm64 on Ubuntu 18.04, I get a conflict: The following packages have unmet dependencies: liborc-0.4-dev : Conflicts: ...
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Hw acceleration lost after upgrade to 21.10

After upgrading to Ubuntu 21.10 I lost the hw acceleration. Now if I try to play a H264 video using vlc I get: $ vlc myvideo-h264.mkv VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2) [...
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Gst-launch script suddenly not working

I have a script for recording output sound [Youtube/Skype] based on gst-launch using a 'pulsesrc device=$monitor' line where the $monitor is parsed via 'pactl stat' and this script worked fine in ...
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Why is ffmpeg and vlc able run RTSP stream but gstreamer is unable to?

When executing this command (gst-launch-1.0 rtspsrc location=rtsp://--- --gst-debug=3) I get this output: Image Not sure how to make sense of this because my RTSP stream is sending via TCP. Also, this ...
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Missing GStreamer plugins h264parse, and avdec_eac3

I attempted to install LabVIEW Community into a Crossover 64 bit Windows 10 bottle. At first there were many errors that indicated missing libraries. I installed them, and these errors no longer ...
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Which codecs does Totem require for H.264 playback in a fresh install of 19.04?

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 19.04 and I am unable to play a MP4 video in Totem. Following the suggestion to install the necessary decoder was unsuccessful. Which codecs must I install to play ...
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How to add additional .m4a plugin to gstreamer1.0-plugins-*?

In the app. called Audio Recorder, I can't record in .m4a format. The app says, "Please install additional plugins(from gstreamer1.0-plugins-* package) to support the m4a format" How do I ...
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Is it possible to upgrade Gstreamer and libx264 on Ubuntu 18.04?

Ubuntu 18.04 has 1.14 Gstreamer installed and libx264-152. Is it possible to upgrade it to 1.16 or 1.18 as well as some dependent libraries like: libx264-155 and libx265? Whether some PPA exists or ...
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Gstreamer error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment

I am using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on the Windows 10 PC with Windows Subsystem for Linux turned on so that I can run Linux on the PC. I tried to use Gstreamer-1.0 then. When running the line: gst-launch-1.0 ...
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Dummy output issue after installing Gstreamer and ALSA plugins in Ubuntu 20.04

I had installed Gstreamer and ALSA plugins to work on some experiments. Steps followed for the installation of the plugin: https://tsn.readthedocs.io/avb.html#plugins-installation However, after the ...
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How do I get HTML5 h.264 Video working on Firefox?

According the the release notes for Firefox 26, h.264 video should now be working in Linux. It does also say the appropriate gstreamer plug-ins need to be installed. Does anyone know what these are? ...
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20.10 => 21.04 update broke Gstreamer's plugins? (RTSP streams over VLC won't work, while i.e. mplayer plays them OK)

After updating to 21.04 (hirsute), my VLC broke as for the RTSP stream playback functionality. I suspect this to be related to my gstreamer plug-ins breaking down during the install. Running the RTSP ...
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gstreamer faac in Ubuntu 20.04

Does anyone know how to install the faac plugin for gstreamer on Ubuntu 20.04 I have run $ sudo apt install gstreamer1.0* which installed plugins-good, -base, -bad and -ugly. I am getting $gst-...
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Can not play DVD in ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]

While inserting a DVD (which plays well in a DVD player) into my laptop, a message appears, requesting me to install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad. What is this? How can I solve this problem and watch my ...
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Sound issue of LDOCE5 viewer (written in Python3 using Gstreamer)

I have installed LDOCE5 viewer on Ubuntu 20.04 as described here. In summary: Install some dependencies: sudo apt-get install git make python pyqt5-dev-tools python3-pyqt5 \ python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit ...
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GStreamer 1.19 error: gst/sdp/sdp.h: No such file or directory

Ubuntu 18.04 $ gst-inspect-1.0 --gst-version GStreamer Core Library version 1.19.0.1 My helloworld program has these includes: #include <gst/gst.h> #include <glib.h> #include <gst/sdp/...
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Unable to apt install armhf packages with unmet dependencies [duplicate]

I am trying to setup an multi arch environment to cross compile armhf board. The steps I followed is quite simple. Install ubuntu-18.04.1-desktop-amd64 on VirtualBox. sudo dpkg --add-architecture ...
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symbol lookup error: a conceptual questioning

Since I installed ubuntu on my laptop, I have a problem with gstreamer, which affects many programs using it, totem, kdenlive, even gnome-control-center, and prevents them from working. The error ...
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Build gnash on ubuntu 20.04

To play some old flash animations I need a flash player for ubuntu 20.04. I was used to use Gnash, but this is no longer shipped with ubuntu. So I tried to compile it by myself, i.e. cloned the git ...
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v4l2loopback device not working with gstreamer

I'm on Ubuntu 20.4.1. I followed the instructions on https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback e.g. sudo modprobe v4l2loopback to set up a loopback device which I then can also find under ls /dev/video*...
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C270 webcam keeps freezing in both cheese and teams

I've bought a Logitech webcam c270 for my online course, for some reason the university uses Teams. Both Teams and the C270 are compatible in my ubuntu 20.04. The webcam works pretty well until it ...
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Cpaturing a window using ximagesrc gives black borders around the image

I was trying to capture a single window using ximagesrc. Encoding it to png and saving it gives black bordes around the image. This was the command i used. gst-launch-1.0 ximagesrc remote=1 num-...

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