Gstreamer Software Encoders Unavailable
I just installed the latest Ubuntu (18.04) images on an SD card to test some gstreamer things with a Cam Link and I'm having trouble getting gstreamer to show the plugins for any of the software encoders like x264enc or vp8enc. The good, bad, and ugly plugins are installed along with libvpx and x264 packages but the software encoders still don't show up. I can run each of the command line encoders so they're there but I'm not sure why gstreamer isn't finding them. I also tried reinstalling the gstreamer packages after installing the encoder libraries but that didn't seem to make a difference. Anyone have any suggestions of what package I might be missing to make it all work?
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@ahanson This is more of an Ubuntu question. The packages on the images are standard packages from Ubuntu so it will share the standard features and bugs that the Ubuntu packages have. You might get a quicker response on a Ubuntu forum.
OK. Thanks. I'll check over there. Wasn't sure if they're were any custom things going on in the repos that might be causing conflicts.
Just check the version of the package against the repo for Ubuntu. If it is the same version and subversion, that means it probably isn't modified. Linux's distro maintainence model is kind of broken. Userspace API from different packages are constantly broken. Kind of a pain.