Hello all,

to start working with GStreamer 1.0 on several embedded platforms, I decided to adapt the existing GStreamer recipes from danny for 1.0. Out of this I created a layer, which is hosted at https://github.com/dv1/meta-gstreamer1.0 .

I write this RFC, because I figure that GStreamer 1.0 support is already on TODO lists of several people, and will eventually end up in OE-Core, just like GStreamer 0.10 did. For this reason, I also didn't add it to the layer index.

I built the packages for several platforms (cubox, beagleboard, imx6), and they worked well. Since 1.0 has been designed to be able to coexist with 0.10 in the same rootfs, I changed the naming convention for the packages: they all start with "gstreamer1.0-" .

I also tried to reuse the existing patches. I was able to reuse three. Several others are no longer necessary. Four are unclear to me, so I did not port them:
* gstreamer: check_fix.patch (I could not reproduce the documented problem), and gstregistrybin.c/.h (why are these present?)
* gst-plugins-base: configure.ac-fix-subparse-plugin.patch (not sure what this is trying to fix, and this line does not exist in 1.0), and gst-plugins-base-tremor.patch (again, works well without it)

gst-ffmpeg was replaced by gst-libav upstream. So was gst-openmax (gst-omx is its successor). gst-omx has special support for the Raspberry Pi and its custom OpenMax IL implementation. The recipe is designed in a way that allows for setting the target to something like "rpi", and the recipe then sets the PACKAGE_ARCH automatically to MACHINE_ARCH. However, I wasn't able to test it on an RPi yet, since I do not have one. I will get access to one in a few days.

I am also considering some kind of autodetection for when yasm and liborc are available (for example, because meta-oe was added to bblayers.conf), and then switches on Orc and enables yasm in gst-libav. Or better yet, if libav is available as a recipe, it lets gst-libav use it instead of its internal copy. These autodetections would improve performance significantly.

Thoughts?

cheers,
Carlos