The GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins considered by the GStreamer developers to have good quality and correct functionality, but distributing them might pose problems. The license on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be how the GStreamer developers would like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/gst-plugins-ugly-1.18.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: fe7b807ea4e91c757366ba209e553a99
Download size: 500 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.7 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (with tests)
liba52-0.7.4 (needed to play DVD's), libdvdread-6.1.1, and x264-20210211
libmpeg2-0.5.1, libcdio-2.1.0 (for CD-ROM drive access), Valgrind-3.16.1, hotdoc, libsidplay, OpenCore AMR, Orc, and TwoLame
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gst10-plugins-ugly
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
If you do not have an Objective-C compiler installed, the build system for this package will emit a warning about a failed sanity check. This is harmless, and it is safe to continue.
If you need a plugin for a given dependency, that dependency needs to be installed before this package.
Install GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson --prefix=/usr \
-Dbuildtype=release \
-Dpackage-origin=http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/ \
-Dpackage-name="GStreamer 1.18.3 BLFS" &&
ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
Last updated on 2021-02-21 15:09:04 -0800