glfs/multimedia/libdriv/gst-plugins-good.xml
Randy McMurchy e443e50286 Added a more accurate explanation of the GConf dependency in the GStreamer Good Plugins instructions
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
<!ENTITY gst-plugins-good-download-http "http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-good/gst-plugins-good-&gst-plugins-good-version;.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY gst-plugins-good-download-ftp "&gnome-download-ftp;/gst-plugins-good/0.10/gst-plugins-good-&gst-plugins-good-version;.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY gst-plugins-good-md5sum "25f111360c2930705b91b4fcf93ae5c5">
<!ENTITY gst-plugins-good-size "1.5 MB">
<!ENTITY gst-plugins-good-buildsize "up to 85 MB (depends on which dependencies are installed)">
<!ENTITY gst-plugins-good-time "up to 1.7 SBU">
]>
<sect1 id="gst-plugins-good"
xreflabel="GStreamer Good Plug-ins-&gst-plugins-good-version;">
<?dbhtml filename="gst-plugins-good.html"?>
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<title>GStreamer Good Plug-ins-&gst-plugins-good-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="gst-plugins-good">
<primary sortas="a-GStreamer-Good-Plug-ins">GStreamer Good Plug-ins</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title>Introduction to GStreamer Good Plug-ins</title>
<para>The <application>GStreamer Good Plug-ins</application> is a set of
plug-ins considered by the <application>GStreamer</application> developers
to have good quality code, correct functionality, and the preferred license
(LGPL for the plug-in code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting
library). A wide range of video and audio decoders, encoders, and filters
are included. Also see the <xref linkend="gst-plugins-ugly"/>, <ulink
url="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-plugins-bad.html">
GStreamer Bad Plug-ins</ulink> and <ulink
url="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-ffmpeg.html">GStreamer
FFmpeg plug-in</ulink> packages.</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gst-plugins-good-download-http;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gst-plugins-good-download-ftp;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download MD5 sum: &gst-plugins-good-md5sum;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download size: &gst-plugins-good-size;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Estimated disk space required: &gst-plugins-good-buildsize;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Estimated build time: &gst-plugins-good-time;</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">GStreamer Good Plug-ins Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
<para role="required"><xref linkend="gst-plugins-base"/></para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (Required for the
<application>GStreamer</application> Backend in <xref linkend="totem"/>,
and Can be Used by Many Other GNOME Applications)</bridgehead>
<para role="required"><xref linkend="GConf"/></para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
<para role="optional"><xref linkend="aalib"/>,
<xref linkend="cairo"/>,
<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/">libcdio</ulink>
(which can use <xref linkend="cdparanoia"/>,
<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcddb">libcddb</ulink>, and
<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/vcdimager/">VCDImager</ulink>),
<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libavc1394/">libavc1394</ulink>
(requires <ulink url="http://www.linux1394.org/">libraw1394</ulink>),
<xref linkend="libdv"/>,
<xref linkend="esound"/>,
<xref linkend="flac"/>,
<xref linkend="gtk2"/> (required to build the examples),
<xref linkend="hal"/>,
<!-- now obsolete
<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpeg/">MMX Jpeg</ulink>
(will fall back to <xref linkend="libjpeg"/> if not found),
-->
<xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
<ulink url="http://www.ladspa.org/">LADSPA</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/">libcaca</ulink>,
<xref linkend="libpng"/>,
<ulink url="http://www.icecast.org/">libshout</ulink>,
<xref linkend="speex"/> (version >= <ulink
url="http://speex.org/downloads/">1.1.6</ulink> is preferred),
<ulink url="http://www.wavpack.com/">WavPack</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib/">TagLib</ulink>,
<xref linkend="x-window-system"/>,
<ulink url="http://check.sourceforge.net/">Check</ulink>
(required to run the unit regression tests), and
<ulink url="http://www.valgrind.org/">Valgrind</ulink>
(optionally used during the unit regression tests)</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (Required to Rebuild the API
Documentation)</bridgehead>
<para role="optional"><xref linkend="gtk-doc"/> and
<xref linkend="pyxml"/></para>
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
<ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gst-plugins-good"/></para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of GStreamer Good Plug-ins</title>
<para>Install <application>GStreamer Good Plug-ins</application> by running
the following commands:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=&gnome-etc-dir; &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>
<para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>. The
<quote>generic/states</quote> test is known to fail on some platforms.
There are many other <filename>Makefile</filename> targets you can specify
for running the tests, issue <command>make -C tests/check help</command>
to see the complete list.</para>
<para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
<para>If you did not rebuild the API documentation by passing
<option>--enable-gtk-doc</option> to the <command>configure</command>
script and you wish to install the pre-built documentation, issue the
following command as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
user:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>make -C docs/plugins install-data</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
<para><parameter>--sysconfdir=&gnome-etc-dir;</parameter>: This parameter
is used so that the <application>GConf</application> configuration files
are installed in the system-wide GNOME <application>GConf</application>
database located in
<filename class="directory">&gnome-etc-dir;/gconf</filename>
instead of <filename class="directory">/usr/etc</filename>. You may omit
this parameter if you don't have <application>GConf</application>
installed.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="content">
<title>Contents</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>None</seg>
<seg>Numerous <application>GStreamer</application> plugins</seg>
<seg>/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-0.10</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>