Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2015-03-06-multilib

Chapter 28. The KDE Core

Phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.8.2

Introduction to the Phonon-backend-gstreamer

This package provides a Phonon backend which utilizes the GStreamer media framework.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.7 platform.

Package Information

Phonon-backend-gstreamer Dependencies

Required

GStreamer-1.4.5, libxml2-2.9.2 and phonon-4.8.3

Recommended

gst-plugins-base-1.4.5 (needed for output to ALSA), gst-plugins-good-1.4.5 (needed for output to PulseAudio), gst-plugins-bad-1.4.5 (needed for AAC/M4A support), and gst-plugins-ugly-1.4.5 (needed for MP3 support)

Optional

Qt-5.4.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/phonon-backend-gstreamer

Installation of Phonon-backend-gstreamer

Install Phonon-backend-gstreamer by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib         \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply higher level of compiler optimizations.

Contents

Installed Programs: none
Installed Libraries: phonon_gstreamer.so
Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend and $KDE_PREFIX/share/kde4/services/phononbackends

Last updated on 2015-02-23 00:16:54 -0500