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Installed Libraries:
libgstgtk4.so
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Introduction to libgstgtk4
The libgstgtk4 package contains a library that binds the gstreamer multimedia framework to GTK-4.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.3 platform.
Package Information
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Download (HTTP): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/archive/gstreamer-1.24.12/gst-plugins-rs-gstreamer-1.24.12.tar.gz
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Download MD5 sum: 217dc9b804c4fcbe52bfe87383e0ee57
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Download size: 2.0 MB
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Estimated disk space required: 793 MB (52 MB installed)
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Estimated build time: 0.7 SBU (with parallelism=8)
libgstgtk4 Dependencies
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git-2.48.1, gst-plugins-base-1.24.12, GTK-4.16.12, and rustc-1.84.1
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Note
An Internet connection is needed for building this package. The system certificate store may need to be set up with make-ca-1.15 before building this package.
Installation of libgstgtk4
Install libgstgtk4 by running the following commands:
cd video/gtk4 && cargo build --release
This package does not come with a test suite, but its basic functionality can be tested after installation.
Now, as the root user:
install -vm755 ../../target/release/libgstgtk4.so /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0
To test the basic functionality of the package, issue: gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc num-buffers=60 ! gtk4paintablesink in a graphical terminal emulator. It should play a test video in a GTK-4 window for 2 seconds.