Building with Gstreamer on Windows

SGaist · wrote on 11 Mar 2020, 19:51

Since you are using the full path to the executable, did you modify the PATH environment variable in the Build part of the Project panel so that it can be found by qmake ?

Did you also try it set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable ?

erikherz · wrote on 11 Mar 2020, 20:29

This is what I now have. Please suggest the value for the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable. Also please confirm that I should be doing with this with Gstreamer MinGW-64. Finally, please help me understand why Windows is asking for this: "Project ERROR: gstreamer-1.0 development package not found" while it builds fine on MacOS. It looks like they have the same pkg-config gstreamer libs.

Thank you!

SGaist · wrote on 11 Mar 2020, 20:34

@erikherz said in Building with Gstreamer on Windows:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH

should contain paths to folder containing .pc files.

Just an educated guess but pkg-config was likely not developed with Windows in mind when it was released.

erikherz · 3 Nov 2020, 20:59

OK. I found it here:
C:>dir "C:" /s /b /d | find ".pc"
...
C:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\lib\pkgconfig\x264.pc
C:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\lib\pkgconfig\zlib.pc
... etc
and set it here but got the same error:
..

SGaist · wrote on 11 Mar 2020, 21:00

Did you also modify the PATH environment variable so that pkg-config can be found by Qt Creator ?

erikherz · wrote on 11 Mar 2020, 21:08

Done. Same error.

erikherz · 3 Nov 2020, 21:32

I did not build qt-gstreamer on any platform. It compiled as-is on Linux and MacOS with the Gstreamer installs but perhaps I need to build an install this as per this article?

https://forum.qt.io/topic/74652/building-qt-gstreamer

SGaist · wrote on 11 Mar 2020, 23:02

Path contains a folder list, not full executable path.

There's no need to build QtGstreamer which is deprecated by the way.

erikherz · wrote on 12 Mar 2020, 00:08

Path updated. Still no luck.

SGaist · wrote on 12 Mar 2020, 22:27

Did you force a re-run of qmake after these modifications ?

erikherz · wrote on 12 Mar 2020, 22:57

According to this article, yes:
https://forum.qt.io/topic/34055/how-does-qtcreator-know-when-to-re-run-qmake/5

I re-started QT Creator and made a point of changing the .pro file. It re-parse and reset.

... same error.

erikherz · wrote on 13 Mar 2020, 13:45

I did a clean install of QT Creator with the MSVC Gstreamer installers and got past that initial error. Now my error is in the Gstreamer integration code. I consider this progress!

erikherz · wrote on 13 Mar 2020, 14:58

Making some progress. Now it is compiling after I added:

LIBS += -lgstvideo-1.0

Now we are trying to get gstreamer to find its own plugins:

14:31:17: Starting C:\GIT\build-slim-Desktop_Qt_5_14_1_MinGW_64_bit-Debug\slim.exe ...

(slim.exe:4476): GStreamer-WARNING **: 14:31:24.371: Failed to load plugin 'C:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\lib\gstreamer-1.0\gstopenh264.dll': 'C:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\lib\gstreamer-1.0\gstopenh264.dll': The specified procedure could not be found.

(slim.exe:4476): GStreamer-WARNING **: 14:31:25.826: Failed to load plugin 'C:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\lib\gstreamer-1.0\gstsrt.dll': 'C:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\lib\gstreamer-1.0\gstsrt.dll': The specified procedure could not be found.
WARNING: no real random source present!
14:31:30: C:\GIT\build-slim-Desktop_Qt_5_14_1_MinGW_64_bit-Debug\slim.exe exited with code 1

erikherz · wrote on 13 Mar 2020, 15:13

This does the trick for making sure that Gstreamer finds its own plugins:

erikherz · wrote on 13 Mar 2020, 19:14

Also here is my win32 block in my .pro file for reference:

win32 {
    INCLUDEPATH += \
                   c:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\include \
                   c:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\lib\gstreamer-1.0\include \
                   c:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\include\gstreamer-1.0 \
                   c:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\include\glib-2.0 \
                   c:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\include\glib-2.0\glib \
                   c:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\include\glib-2.0\include


    DEPENDPATH += c:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\lib

    LIBS += -Lc:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\lib
    LIBS += c:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\lib\glib-2.0.lib
    LIBS += -lglib-2.0 -lwinpthread -lgstreamer-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0
    LIBS += -lgstvideo-1.0

    CONFIG += c:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\lib\pkgconfig
}

SGaist · wrote on 13 Mar 2020, 19:36

Looks like pkg-config did not work correctly but still... the manual way did work !

Glad you found a way and thanks for sharing !

erikherz · wrote on 14 Mar 2020, 16:29

Also for Windows, I needed to use d3dvideosink or autovideosink rather than glimagesink

It builds and renders the Gstreamer sample video.

Now my issue is getting it to stay within the application window rather than popping out into its own new window.

I got this error:

** (slim_qt.exe:5908): CRITICAL **: 16:15:15.218: gst_video_overlay_set_window_handle: assertion 'overlay != NULL' failed

So I added:

    qDebug() << "slim_qt:gst() xwinid = " + QVariant(xwinid).toString();

and got this:

"slim_qt:gst() xwinid = 1770362"

So I am wondering why gst_video_overlay_set_window_handle failed.

SGaist · wrote on 14 Mar 2020, 19:50

You might want to take a look at the GStreamer backend plugin. With recent versions of Qt you can build custom pipelines and make them output to a Qt video widget naming the sink properly.

erikherz · wrote on 14 Mar 2020, 19:55

I would love to learn more about that. May I have a pointer to a doc? A quick search did not turn up an obvious resource for me.

erikherz · wrote on 14 Mar 2020, 19:58

I got it to land in the QWidget. The trick was to call .show() before calling winId().

Here is the final .pro:

QT       += core gui multimediawidgets

greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets

CONFIG += c++11

DEFINES += QT_DEPRECATED_WARNINGS

SOURCES += \
    main.cpp

HEADERS +=

CONFIG += link_pkgconfig

PKGCONFIG += gstreamer-1.0 \
        glib-2.0 \
        gobject-2.0 \
        gio-2.0

linux {
    PKGCONFIG += gstvideo-1.0
    LIBS += -L/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ -lgstvideo-1.0
}

mac {
    PKG_CONFIG = /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
    PKGCONFIG += gstreamer-video-1.0
}

win32 {
    INCLUDEPATH += c:/gstreamer/1.0/x86_64/include \
                   c:/gstreamer/1.0/x86_64/lib/gstreamer-1.0/include \
                   c:/gstreamer/1.0/x86_64/include/gstreamer-1.0 \
                   c:/gstreamer/1.0/x86_64/include/glib-2.0 \
                   c:/gstreamer/1.0/x86_64/include/glib-2.0/glib \
                   c:/gstreamer/1.0/x86_64/include/glib-2.0/include


    DEPENDPATH += c:/gstreamer/1.0/x86_64/lib/

    LIBS += -Lc:/gstreamer/1.0/x86_64/lib
    LIBS += c:/gstreamer/1.0/x86_64/lib/glib-2.0.lib
    LIBS += -lglib-2.0 -lwinpthread -lgstreamer-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0
    LIBS += -lgstvideo-1.0

    CONFIG += c:/gstreamer/1.0/x86_64/lib/pkgconfig
}

# Default rules for deployment.
qnx: target.path = /tmp/$${TARGET}/bin
else: unix:!android: target.path = /opt/$${TARGET}/bin
!isEmpty(target.path): INSTALLS += target

and main.cpp:

#include <QApplication>
#include <QFrame>
#include <QTimer>
#include <QDebug>
#include <QLabel>
#include <QWidget>
#include <QVBoxLayout>
#include <gst/gst.h>
#include <QtDebug>

#include <gst/video/videooverlay.h>

/* added to work on OSX */
#ifdef __APPLE__
#ifdef TARGET_OS_MAC
#include <glib/deprecated/gthread.h>
#endif
#endif

void gst(int argc, char *argv[]) {

   gst_init (&argc, &argv);
   QApplication app(argc, argv);
   app.connect(&app, SIGNAL(lastWindowClosed()), &app, SLOT(quit ()));


   // prepare the pipeline
   /*
      GstElement *pipeline =
              gst_parse_launch
              (
                  "videotestsrc is-live=true ! d3dvideosink",
              NULL);
       GstElement *sink  =  gst_bin_get_by_name(GST_BIN(pipeline), "sink");
   */

      GstElement *pipeline = gst_pipeline_new ("xvoverlay");
      GstElement *src = gst_element_factory_make ("videotestsrc", NULL);
      GstElement *sink = gst_element_factory_make ("d3dvideosink", NULL);
      gst_bin_add_many (GST_BIN (pipeline), src, sink, NULL);
      gst_element_link (src, sink);


      // prepare the ui

   QWidget window;

   QLabel *label = new QLabel("Hi");
   QWidget *widget = new QWidget();

    QVBoxLayout qboxLayout;
    qboxLayout.addWidget(label);
    qboxLayout.addWidget(widget);
    window.setLayout(&qboxLayout);

    window.resize(320, 240);
    window.show();


        WId xwinid = widget->winId();
        qDebug() << "slim_qt:gst() xwinid = " + QVariant(xwinid).toString();

        gst_video_overlay_set_window_handle (GST_VIDEO_OVERLAY (sink), xwinid);

   // run the pipeline

   GstStateChangeReturn sret = gst_element_set_state (pipeline,
       GST_STATE_PLAYING);
   if (sret == GST_STATE_CHANGE_FAILURE) {
     gst_element_set_state (pipeline, GST_STATE_NULL);
     gst_object_unref (pipeline);
     // Exit application
     QTimer::singleShot(0, QApplication::activeWindow(), SLOT(quit()));
   }

   app.exec();

}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    gst(argc, argv);
    return true;
}

and project build ENV settings:

Set GSL_PLUGIN_PATH to C:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\lib\gstreamer-1.0
Set GSTREAMER_INCDIR to C:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\include\gstreamer-1.0
Set GSTREAMER_LIBDIR to C:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\lib
Set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to C:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\lib\pkgconfig\

Add to Path: C:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\bin\