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 12.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/gst-plugins-ugly-1.22.5.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 8649b3c009336f1ebfeb1b7e3931a3a0
Download size: 244 KB
Estimated disk space required: 8.9 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (with tests)
liba52-0.7.4 (needed to play DVD's), libdvdread-6.1.3, and x264-20230215
libmpeg2-0.5.1, libcdio-2.1.0 (for CD-ROM drive access), Valgrind-3.21.0, hotdoc, libsidplay, OpenCore AMR, Orc, and TwoLame
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 setup .. \ --prefix=/usr \ --buildtype=release \ -Dgpl=enabled \ -Dpackage-origin=https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/12.0/ \ -Dpackage-name="GStreamer 1.22.5 BLFS" && ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test.
Now, as the root
user:
ninja install
--buildtype=release
:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-Dgpl=enabled
: Without this
switch, plugins with dependencies on (A)GPL licensed libraries are
not built.