Installing GStreamer for Integrating multimedia software stack on NXP i.MX8M Plus

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Configuring the local.conf

After you have configured the development environment you will have some configuration files in which you can declare some libraries to the image or the SDK.

In order to install GStreamer in this board, you just need to got the local.conf file at:

cd $HOME/<your image folder>/<your build directory>/conf/
cat local.conf

In this file you just need to add the following lines:

# -- GStreamer stuff --
CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly-meta \
                             packagegroup-fsl-gstreamer1.0-commercial "

LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST += "commercial"

CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly"

PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly = " x264 mad \
                                                  amrnb  amrwb dvdread "

IMAGE_INSTALL_append = "gstreamer1.0 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad imx-gpu-g2d imx-gst1.0-plugin'

Building the image with the changes in local.conf

cd $HOME/<your image folder>

source setup-environment build_xwayland

bitbake imx-image-core

Testing GStreamer in the i.MX8M Plus

After flashing the image into the board, please execute some of the pipelines below in order to test the GStreamer installation.

In this example, please imagine that the i.MX8M Plus is serving the video to the host machine to show using UDP network protocol to transmit the multimedia.

Note: For this example, you will need a downloaded video on your board.

i.MX8M Plus as a UDP video server

In your host machine

Let's put the host machine as the video receiver:

PORT=5000

gst-launch-1.0 udpsrc port=$PORT ! application/x-rtp,media=video,clock-rate=90000,encoding-name=H264,payload=96 ! rtph264depay ! avdec_h264 ! autovideosink

In the i.MX8M Plus

HOST_IP=192.168.x.y

PORT=5000

VIDEO=your_video.mp4

gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=$VIDEO ! qtdemux ! queue ! rtph264pay ! udpsink host=$HOST_IP port=$PORT

Host machine as a UDP video server

Let's put the host machine as the video server this time:

Pipe in the i.MX8M Plus

PORT=5000

gst-launch-1.0 udpsrc port=$PORT ! application/x-rtp,media=video,clock-rate=90000,encoding-name=H264,payload=96 ! rtph264depay ! avdec_h264 ! fakesink -v

Pipe in the PC

PORT=5000

HOST_IP=<ip of the i.MX8M Plus>

VIDEO=<your video>.mp4

gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=$VIDEO ! qtdemux ! queue ! rtph264pay ! udpsink host=$HOST_IP port=$PORT