GstRtspSink - Building the plug-in

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This page describes the process of building the GstRtspSink plug-in using both, RidgeRun's professional SDK and as a standalone GStreamer project.

Building GstRtspSink Using RidgeRun SDK

The source code for GstRtspSink can be found in

$DEVDIR/proprietary/gst-rtsp-sink

The element will be built along with the SDK if selected on the configuration menu.

make config
 '-> Proprietary software
       '-> [*] RidgeRun RTSP GStreamer sink element
             '-> [] Enable Multicast support

This will automatically make sure all the dependencies are built before the plug-in.

On the other hand, GstRtspSink can be built manually by:

cd $DEVDIR/proprietary/gst-rtsp-sink
rm -f rrbuilt rrinstalled  # for cases where the project was already built
make
make install

In this case, the dependencies will not be automatically built, and is up to you to ensure they are all built before building GstRtspSink.

Building as a Standalone Project

GstRtspSink may be built as a standalone Autotools project. First, make sure the dependencies are fulfilled:

sudo apt-get install \
libgstrtspserver-1.0-dev \
libgstreamer1.0-dev \
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev \
libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-dev \
libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev

After that, proceed to build the package:

cd gst_rtsp_sink/src # Note the src subdirectory
./autogen.sh
./configure --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/     # GStreamer will look for its plug-ins in this standard location
make
sudo make install

The location of the plug-in can vary according to the system. The following table summarizes some standard locations for different setups

Table 1. Standard libdir configuration for different systems

System	Libdir
Ubuntu	/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
Mac OSX (macports)	/opt/local/lib
RidgeRun SDK	/usr/lib/

Note: The default port used by RTSP is 554. Running RTSP Sink on a host PC may require root privileges to open the appropriate sockets (port numbers less than 1024). If the debug reveals a permission problem, then run the pipeline using sudo. You should be able to run GStreamer pipelines with rtspsink if the specified port number is 1024 or greater.

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