Gstreamer with visual C++ express 2010 - tutorial 1

Question

I\'m new to Gstreamer, and I have problems when I compile the tutorial 1 of Gstreamer. I\'m using Windows 7 64 bit with visual c++ express 2010, and Gstreamer SDK 2012.11 32

Answer 1

Second error:

I would like to explain this for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS users.

To try examples from GStreamer tutorials sections you should compile & install from sources those repositories:

gstreamer
gst-plugins-base
gst-plugins-good

The reason is that versions used for the examples did not match versions I installed with apt (playbin was missing).

Before compiling from source you will also need dependencies to build vorbis, vpx and souphttpsrc plugins (they are parts of repositories mentioned). You can install them by running:

apt install libvorbis-dev libsoup2.4-dev libvpx-dev

To check whether mentioned plugins were included in the repository build see ./configure output. If they were not maybe there are still some dependencies missing on your system. The output will tell you what's missing.

After that you should successfully compile and run the example (you should see a video playback).

A general flow for fixing initial installation problems with GStreamer is (as mentioned in accepted answer) using --gst-debug-level=4, finding out what plugins are missing and installing them.