From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B104D60664 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 19:26:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id 92EA7F811DF; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:26:15 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCC73F811D8; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:26:14 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <520A8864.4020803@mlbassoc.com> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:26:28 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130804 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Jansa References: <520A6CE6.3010000@mlbassoc.com> <20130813173641.GN17945@jama> In-Reply-To: <20130813173641.GN17945@jama> Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Subject: Re: Enabling x264 support in gstreamer X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 19:26:15 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2013-08-13 11:36, Martin Jansa wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:29:10AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote: >> I see that some of the gstreamer recipes have changed so that x264 >> is now a PACKAGECONFIG option. However, I don't see anything that >> enables this option anywhere. >> >> How do I get x264 support back - it was working with Poky/Yocto >> just a few weeks back... >> >> Note: I have imported meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/x264 from meta-openembedded >> into my layers for this [library] package. > > Add x264 to PACKAGECONFIG in your .bbappend or distro config as > PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-gst-foo = " x264" Thanks, although this seems very cumbersome to me. Is this the only (or at least expected) way for this to work? I didn't find the section in the manual that discusses this to be very enlightening. It tells me *how* to use PACKAGECONFIG in a recipe but not really *why* nor how to control it in a build/image/distro. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------