Install gstreamer plugins windows

You can review these options by executing msiexec without parameters. For example using 1. This will bring up the installation dialog as if the user had double-clicked on the msi file. Usually, you will want to let the user choose where they want to install GStreamer. An environment variable will let your application locate it later on. Again, use the msiexec parameters that suit you best. For example:. On the other side of the spectrum, if you want to reduce the space requirements and installer size to the maximum, you can manually choose which GStreamer libraries to deploy.

Unfortunately, you are on your own on this road, besides using the Dependency Walker tool to discover inter-DLL dependencies. Bear in mind that GStreamer is modular in nature. Plug-ins are loaded depending on the media that is being played, so, if you do not know in advance what files you are going to play, you do not know which DLLs you need to deploy.

This could be a hardcoded list of mappings, for example, or be part of the packaging system metadata. GStreamer plugin files can be introspected for this information. The gst-inspect utility has a special command line option that will output information similar to what is required.

Note that in the encoder and decoder case the introspected caps can be more complex with additional fields, e. It is up to the installer to deal with this either by doing proper caps intersection using the GStreamer GstCaps API, or by only taking into account the media type. This is also up to the distribution to handle but usually not relevant for playback applications. Creates a new GstInstallPluginsContext.

Creates a new GstPbutils. Free with GstPbutils. Copies a GstInstallPluginsContext. Copies a GstPbutils. Frees a GstInstallPluginsContext. Frees a GstPbutils. This function is used to tell the external installer process whether it should ask for confirmation or not before searching for missing plugins.

This function is used to pass the calling application's desktop file ID to the external installer process. This is typically used to to pass the current X11 event timestamp to the external installer process.

Startup notification IDs are defined in the FreeDesktop. Org Startup Notifications standard. You can use it to tell the external installer the XID of your main application window. That way the installer can make its own window transient to your application window during the installation. Requests plugin installation without blocking. It is possible to request the installation of multiple missing plugins in one go as might be required if there is a demuxer for a certain format installed but no suitable video decoder and no suitable audio decoder.

The installer strings that make up detail are typically obtained by calling GstPbutils. Checks whether plugin installation initiated by this application only is currently in progress. Convenience function to return the descriptive string associated with a status code. This function returns English strings and should not be used for user messages. It is here only to assist in debugging. Checks whether plugin installation is likely to be supported by the current environment.

This currently only checks whether the helper script that is to be provided by the distribution or operating system vendor exists. Aaron Boxer: Dec 02, at PM. Yes, docker would be great - you might want to open an issue for this on the GStreamer Gitlab site. I'm glad you found this post helpful! FT: Dec 28, at AM. Hi, Aaron! Thanks for this very useful post. I've successfully built the current gst-build master in a Win10 VM following mostly your instructions.

I needed a few changes, though, to make it work: 1. I copied python. This might not be absolutely necessary. Aaron Boxer: Jan 07, at PM. Thanks for the feedback! I'm not sure how your environment is configured, but I don't think you should need to rename python or use pkg-config for the build. FT: Dec 28, at PM. While the build process did not quit with an error, I noticed that many components were not built even from gst-plugins-base, such as gstogg.

I see no mentioning of the ogg component in the meson-log. There's a line in the meson. Apart from ogg, there are many components unbuilt. Do you have any suggestion as to what could've gone wrong? If it's really because of a dependency, is there a list of "packages" that need to be installed? I'm guessing ogg would be already present in a base linux installation, but I'm doing the build on Windows. Bishwaroop: Mar 30, at AM. While running the ninja -C build it fails when linking the Open citing x86 and x64 mix up.

Am i missing some step?.. I am using visual studio natuve x64 command as mentioned above. Aaron: Mar 30, at PM. Hi Bishwaroop , it's hard to say what the problem is as every environment is different. Have you built GStreamer before on this system for x86?

Try deleting the build directory and trying again. If error persists, you might want to open an issue on the gst-build Gitlab repo. Bishwaroop: Mar 30, at PM. What i meant was the Open which is subprojects the meson build file refers to the x86 folders for the linkage. Since this build has target type set to x64 hence this fails. No i didnt build it for x86 as the default cloned git repo gives a meson for x64 build only.

Aaron: Apr 03, at PM. Gonzalo Carozo: Apr 03, at PM. Hi Aaron, thank you very much for the guide. Aaron Boxer: Apr 03, at PM. Hi Gonzalo, glad you found the post helpful. It's hard to say what the issue is, do you mean the directory is empty, or the environment variable? Bill G: Apr 04, at PM. Great post and very helpful.