OpenEmbedded layer for GStreamer 1.0

This layer provides UNOFFICIAL support for the GStreamer 1.0 framework for use with OpenEmbedded and/or Yocto.

The recipes are adapted versions of the GStreamer 0.10 recipes from OE-core. gst-openmax was replaced with gst-omx, since gst-openmax is unmaintained and has not been ported to 1.0 (gst-omx is its successor). gst-ffmpeg was replaced by gst-libav.

These recipes have been pushed upstream to OpenEmbedded Core, and will probably be part of the next OE version. This layer therefore will be used to provide support for older versions (dylan and danny). If possible and appropiate, patches from OE core will be backported to this layer.

Dependencies

URI: git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
branch: dylan
revision: HEAD

Package names and coexistence with 0.10

OpenEmbedded Core currently contains recipes for GStreamer 0.10.36 . Since 1.0 was designed to be able to coexist with 0.10 in the same system, the recipes for GStreamer 1.0 use different names. These are:

gstreamer1.0
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
gstreamer1.0-libav
gstreamer1.0-omx

Building git versions

By default, release tarballs are unpacked and built. It is possible, however, to build from the GStreamer git repositories instead. It is generally better to use the releases, however for bleeding edge features the git versions might be necessary.

To let Bitbake know that the git version of a package is preferred, add to local.conf:

PREFERRED_VERSION_<packagename> = "git"

For example, to use git versions of all packages, add to local.conf:

PREFERRED_VERSION_gstreamer1.0 = "git"
PREFERRED_VERSION_gstreamer1.0-plugins-base = "git"
PREFERRED_VERSION_gstreamer1.0-plugins-good = "git"
PREFERRED_VERSION_gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad = "git"
PREFERRED_VERSION_gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly = "git"
PREFERRED_VERSION_gstreamer1.0-libav = "git"
PREFERRED_VERSION_gstreamer1.0-omx = "git"

Enabling plugins with dependencies

By default, in the base/good/bad/ugly recipes, only dependency-less plugins and plugins with dependencies that are supported by OE-core (i.e. recipes for them exist in OE-core) are always enabled.

These are:

gstreamer1.0-plugins-base : ivorbis (Tremor), ogg, theora, vorbis
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good : cairo, flac, gdk-pixbuf, jpeg, libpng, soup, speex, taglib
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad : curl, eglgles
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly : a52dec, lame, mad, mpeg2dec

With the X11, ALSA, and PulseAudio plugins, the situation is a bit different. They are built depending on the contents of the DISTRO_FEATURES value (in other words, depending on what the OE distribution supports).

The rest is disabled by default, and can be enabled by appending to the respective PACKAGECONFIG values. For example, to enable vpx and wavpack support in gstreamer1.0-plugins-good , add to local.conf:

PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-gstreamer1.0-plugins-good = "vpx wavpack"

Note that after enabling a plugin this way, it must be ensured that recipes for the plugin's dependencies are available. In the example above, recipes for vpx and wavpack must exist. This typically means that additional OE layers must be used (often meta-oe or meta-multimedia).

This is also how Orc support is enabled. By default, the plugins are not built with Orc, since its recipes are not included in OE-core. So, to enable Orc in all packages, add to local.conf for example:

PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-gstreamer1.0-plugins-base = "orc"
PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-gstreamer1.0-plugins-good = "orc"
PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad = "orc"
PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly = "orc"

Below is a list of all configuration values for enabling additional plugins and features in the packages. git versions of the packages might have additional configuration values. These values that exist (currently) only in the git version are marked with "(git)".

gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
- orc : enables Orc support
- pango : Pango plugins
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
- orc : enables Orc support
- jack : JACK audio system plugins
- vpx : plugins for en- and decoding VP8 video streams, using Google's libvpx
- wavpack : WavPack plugins
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
- orc : enables Orc support
- assrender : ASS/SSA subtitle renderer plugins
- faad : AAC decoding plugins using the FAAD library
- libmms : Microsoft Multimedia Stream plugins
- modplug : Decoder plugins for module files (MOD/S3M/XM/IT/..) using the ModPlug library
- mpg123 : MPEG-1 layer 1/2/3 audio decoder plugin using the mpg123 library
- opus : Opus audio decoder plugin
- flite : Flite speech synthesizer plugins
- opencv : OpenCV image processing plugins
- bluez (git) : Bluetooth plugins using BlueZ
- sbc (git) : SBC codec plugins using BlueZ
- hls (git) : HTTP live streaming plugin (uses GNU tls)
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
- orc : enables Orc support
- cdio : Compact Disc audio plugins using libcdio
- dvdread : DVD source plugins using libdvdread
- x264 : h.264/AVC encoder plugin using libx264
gstreamer1.0-libav
- libav : builds the package using the system's libav instead of the included one (not recommended unless you really know what you are doing!)
- lgpl : build the package in LGPL mode (disables GPL elements)
- yasm : enable support for the yasm assembler (recommended for performance)

OpenMAX IL support

The gstreamer1.0-omx package adds support for OpenMAX IL. By default, the recipe is configured to use the bellagio OpenMAX IL implementation that ships with OE-Core. BSP layers are encouraged to add .bbappend files which set the GSTREAMER_1_0_OMX_TARGET variable to make gstreamer1.0-omx use the device specific OpenMAX IL support. Currently, these device specific targets are supported:

rpi : Raspberry Pi OpenMAX IL implementation