Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 8.1

Chapter 29. Introduction to KDE

Phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.9.0

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-8.1 platform.

Package Information

Phonon-backend-gstreamer Dependencies

Required

gstreamer-1.12.2, libxml2-2.9.4, and phonon-4.9.1

Recommended

gst-plugins-base-1.12.2 (needed for output to ALSA), gst-plugins-good-1.12.2 (needed for output to PulseAudio), gst-plugins-bad-1.12.2 (needed for AAC/M4A support), and gst-plugins-ugly-1.12.2 (needed for MP3 support)

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

Installation of Phonon-backend-gstreamer

[Note]

Note

This package unpacks to the directory phonon-gstreamer-4.9.0.

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

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr    \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release     \
      -DPHONON_BUILD_PHONON4QT5=ON   \
      -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.

-DPHONON_BUILD_PHONON4QT5=ON: This switch is used to ensure that Qt5 version of the backend is built even if Qt4 is present.

Contents

Installed Programs: none
Installed Libraries: phonon_gstreamer.so
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/qt5/plugins/phonon4qt5_backend

Last updated on 2017-08-25 14:22:07 -0700