Ok, Ive installed GStreamer. What can I do next ?
First of all, verify that you have a working registry and that you can inspect them by typing $ gst-inspect fakesrc This should print out a bunch of information about this particular element. If this tells you that there is “no such element or plugin”, you haven’t installed GStreamer correctly. Please check how to get GStreamer If this fails with any other message, we would appreciate a bug report. It’s time to try out a few things. Start with gst-launch and two plug-ins that you really should have : fakesrc and fakesink. They do nothing except pass empty buffers. Type this at the command-line : $ gst-launch -v fakesrc num-buffers=3 ! fakesink This will print out output that looks similar to this : RUNNING pipeline … fakesrc0: last-message = “get ******* (fakesrc0:src)gt; (0 bytes, 0) 0x8057510” fakesink0: last-message = “chain ******* (fakesink0:sink)lt; (0 bytes, 0) 0x8057510” fakesrc0: last-message = “get ******* (fakesrc0:src)gt; (0 bytes, 1) 0x8057510” fakesink0: last-message =
