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.
gst-plugins-base-1.24.9 and Meson Toolchain Files (for lib32)
liba53 (needed to play DVD's), libdvdread, and x264
libmpeg2, libcdio (for CD-ROM drive access), Valgrind, hotdoc, libsidplay, and Orc
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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 \
-D gpl=enabled &&
ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
First clean the build directory:
rm -rf *
Install GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins by running the following commands:
meson setup .. \
--cross-file lib32 \
--prefix=/usr \
--libdir=/usr/lib32 \
--buildtype=release \
-D gpl=enabled &&
ninja
Now, as the root user:
DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR ninja install && cp -vR DESTDIR/usr/lib32/* /usr/lib32 && rm -rf DESTDIR && ldconfig
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-D gpl=enabled: Without
this switch, plugins with dependencies on (A)GPL licensed libraries
are not built.