Enabling x264 support in gstreamer
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.
Thanks
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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"
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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?
Well, if it's in a .bbappend (rather than distro.conf) then you don't need the _append_pn-gst-foo bit, you can just write
PACKAGECONFIG += "x264"
which is probably a bit neater and more intuitive. But if you don't already have a .bbappend for that recipe then you might not want to add one just for that, it's just a matter of taste which you prefer.
Other than that, yes, this is basically how PACKAGECONFIG is intended to be used. Some recipes set a default PACKAGECONFIG based on DISTRO_FEATURES, but in the general case it's just a variable that you need to set appropriately.
The thing that's a bit unsatisfactory about this approach is that we don't have any equivalent to DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL for recipe-local PACKAGECONFIG options, which means that introducing new switches for things that were previously default-on tends to cause unexpected breakage of the sort that you've observed. It would be good to figure out a better way of dealing with that.
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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...
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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?
Well, if it's in a .bbappend (rather than distro.conf) then you don't need the _append_pn-gst-foo bit, you can just write
PACKAGECONFIG += "x264"
which is probably a bit neater and more intuitive. But if you don't already have a .bbappend for that recipe then you might not want to add one just for that, it's just a matter of taste which you prefer.
Other than that, yes, this is basically how PACKAGECONFIG is intended to be used. Some recipes set a default PACKAGECONFIG based on
DISTRO_FEATURES, but in the general case it's just a variable that you need to set appropriately.
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The thing that's a bit unsatisfactory about this approach is that we don't have any equivalent to
DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILLfor recipe-local PACKAGECONFIG options, which means that introducing new switches for things that were previously default-on tends to cause unexpected breakage of the sort that you've observed. It would be good to figure out a better way of dealing with that.
The thing is for the option in question wasn't default-on before, it was silently on or off depending on the availability of x264. Since x264 was unavailable to most users of OE-Core alone the correct thing to do was to default it to off, so backfilling couldn't have helped here.
Cheers,
Paul
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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...
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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?
Well, if it's in a .bbappend (rather than distro.conf) then you don't need the _append_pn-gst-foo bit, you can just write
PACKAGECONFIG += "x264"
which is probably a bit neater and more intuitive. But if you don't already have a .bbappend for that recipe then you might not want to add one just for that, it's just a matter of taste which you prefer.
Other than that, yes, this is basically how PACKAGECONFIG is intended to be used. Some recipes set a default PACKAGECONFIG based on
DISTRO_FEATURES, but in the general case it's just a variable that you need to set appropriately.
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The thing that's a bit unsatisfactory about this approach is that we don't have any equivalent to
DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILLfor recipe-local PACKAGECONFIG options, which means that introducing new switches for things that were previously default-on tends to cause unexpected breakage of the sort that you've observed. It would be good to figure out a better way of dealing with that.
Well on this case x264 cannot be enabled in gst-* recipe in oe-core, because x264 is in different layer.
The old behavior Gary was depending on wasn't deterministic as x264 was enabled only when he built x264 before gst-*.
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Quoted 9 lines · Gary Thomas
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.
I havn't worked with this myself, but my guess is. In your distribution.conf file (or your local.conf):
PACKAGECONFIG_gst-plugins-ugly = "x264"
or
PACKAGECONFIG_gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly = "a52dec lame mad mpeg2dec x264"
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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.
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I havn't worked with this myself, but my guess is. In your distribution.conf file (or your local.conf):
PACKAGECONFIG_gst-plugins-ugly = "x264"
or
PACKAGECONFIG_gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly = "a52dec lame mad mpeg2dec x264"
You missed out the "pn-" which is necessary for such per-recipe overrides to work. The correct examples would be:
PACKAGECONFIG_pn-gst-plugins-ugly = "x264"
or
PACKAGECONFIG_pn-gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly = "a52dec lame mad mpeg2dec x264"
If preferred you could use ..._append_pn-... = " x264" to add to the existing options rather than setting them outright.
Cheers,
Paul
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