Compiling Opencv with Gstreamer, cmake not finding GStreamer

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I want to build opencv with GStreamer support.

I built the GStreamer from source (version 1.8.1) following this guide: http://kacianka.at/?p=145 I have 'gstreamer_build' folder at my home directory and it contains 'bin' folder with these:

gst-device-monitor-1.0 gst-discoverer-1.0 gst-inspect-1.0 gst-launch-1.0 gst-play-1.0 gst-stats-1.0 gst-typefind-1.0 orc-bugreport orcc

I have this path added to my environment variable PATH.

When I use cmake like:

cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -D OPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=~/opencv_contrib/modules -D BUILD_opencv_python3=ON -D WITH_GSTREAMER=ON -D WITH_FFMPEG=OFF ..

I get the following output clearly indicating that gstreamer is not found:

-- checking for module 'gstreamer-base-1.0'
--   package 'gstreamer-base-1.0' not found
-- checking for module 'gstreamer-video-1.0'
--   package 'gstreamer-video-1.0' not found
-- checking for module 'gstreamer-app-1.0'
--   package 'gstreamer-app-1.0' not found
-- checking for module 'gstreamer-riff-1.0'
--   package 'gstreamer-riff-1.0' not found
-- checking for module 'gstreamer-pbutils-1.0'
--   package 'gstreamer-pbutils-1.0' not found
-- checking for module 'gstreamer-base-0.10'
--   package 'gstreamer-base-0.10' not found
-- checking for module 'gstreamer-video-0.10'
--   package 'gstreamer-video-0.10' not found
-- checking for module 'gstreamer-app-0.10'
--   package 'gstreamer-app-0.10' not found
-- checking for module 'gstreamer-riff-0.10'
--   package 'gstreamer-riff-0.10' not found
-- checking for module 'gstreamer-pbutils-0.10'
--   package 'gstreamer-pbutils-0.10' not found

and this:

Video I/O:
--     DC1394 1.x:                  NO
--     DC1394 2.x:                  NO
--     FFMPEG:                      NO
--       codec:                     NO
--       format:                    NO
--       util:                      NO
--       swscale:                   NO
--       resample:                  NO
--       gentoo-style:              NO
--     GStreamer:                   NO
--     OpenNI:                      NO
--     OpenNI PrimeSensor Modules:  NO
--     OpenNI2:                     NO
--     PvAPI:                       NO
--     GigEVisionSDK:               NO
--     UniCap:                      NO
--     UniCap ucil:                 NO
--     V4L/V4L2:                    Using libv4l1 (ver 1.0.1) / libv4l2 (ver 1.0.1)
--     XIMEA:                       NO
--     Xine:                        NO
--     gPhoto2:                     NO

Can anyone help me with this?

Dan0 · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-15 21:38:39Z

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I had the same problem.

gstreamer-base corresponds to libgstbase-1.0.so (or libgstbase-0.10.so), found in package libgstreamer1.0-0 (or libgstreamer0.10-0, as the case may be). Below, we install the '-dev' package.

The other libraries (libgst-video, libgst-app, libgst-riff, libgst-pbutils) I found in package libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev (again, substitute the version you wish to use, either v0.1, or v1.0).

Therefore, the following command should be used to install the missing dependencies:

sudo apt install libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev

Repeat the cmake command, possibly purging the contents of the build directory beforehand.

answered Jan 15, 2017 at 21:38

Dan0

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Dude you saved me a bunch of time! Thanks for sharing this.
– Georgi Angelov
Jun 8, 2017 at 4:55
How can you do this with yum? I tried it but it doesn't seem that yum has access to whatever repository libgstreamer happens to be in.
– Paul
Apr 7, 2018 at 3:50
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@DanO - Even though this post is 3 years old as of this writing, it works!
– Craig S. Anderson
Jul 6, 2018 at 22:15
Maybe you know how to also install libavresample to get YES in all rows?
– A.Ametov
May 14, 2019 at 12:02

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Alex Punnen · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-11 08:07:00Z

The below worked for me if you are developing just a Gstreamer applicaiton

# GStreamer CMake building
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3)
project(GStreamerHello)

set(PKG_CONFIG_USE_CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH ON)
find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
if ( NOT (PKGCONFIG_FOUND))
      message(FATAL_ERROR "Please Install PPkgConfig: CMake will Exit")
endif()
pkg_check_modules(GST REQUIRED gstreamer-1.0>=1.8)
if ( NOT (GST_FOUND))
      message(FATAL_ERROR "Please Install Gstreamer Dev: CMake will Exit")
endif()
set(ENV{PKG_CONFIG_PATH})

include_directories("${GST_INCLUDE_DIRS}")

link_libraries(${GST_LIBRARIES})

add_executable(gstreamerSrvc  src/hello_gstreamer.cc)
add_dependencies(gstreamerSrvc vsphere_header )
target_link_libraries(gstreamerSrvc ${GST_LIBRARIES}  )

Note - If you need a dev docker for GStreamer it is below; and for your question it has the parts of compiling with OpenCV as well; More details at https://medium.com/techlogs/compiling-opencv-for-cuda-for-yolo-and-other-cnn-libraries-9ce427c00ff8

FROM nvidia/cuda
# This is a dev image, needed to compile OpenCV with CUDA
# Install  Gstreamer and OpenCV Pre-requisite libs
RUN  apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y \
            libgstreamer1.0-0 \
            gstreamer1.0-plugins-base \
            gstreamer1.0-plugins-good \
            gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad \
            gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly \
            gstreamer1.0-libav \
            gstreamer1.0-doc \
            gstreamer1.0-tools \
            libgstreamer1.0-dev \
            libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
RUN  apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y  pkg-config \
 zlib1g-dev  libwebp-dev \
 libtbb2 libtbb-dev  \
 libgtk2.0-dev pkg-config libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev \
 cmake
RUN apt-get install -y \
  autoconf \
  autotools-dev \
  build-essential \
  gcc \
  git
ENV OPENCV_RELEASE_TAG 3.4.5
RUN git clone https://github.com/opencv/opencv.git /var/local/git/opencv
RUN cd /var/local/git/opencv && \
  git checkout tags/${OPENCV_RELEASE_TAG} 
RUN mkdir -p /var/local/git/opencv/build && \
     cd /var/local/git/opencv/build $$ && \
    cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -D BUILD_PNG=OFF -D \
    BUILD_TIFF=OFF -D BUILD_TBB=OFF -D BUILD_JPEG=ON \
    -D BUILD_JASPER=OFF -D BUILD_ZLIB=ON -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF \
    -D BUILD_opencv_java=OFF -D BUILD_opencv_python2=ON \
    -D BUILD_opencv_python3=OFF -D ENABLE_NEON=OFF -D WITH_OPENCL=OFF \
    -D WITH_OPENMP=OFF -D WITH_FFMPEG=OFF -D WITH_GSTREAMER=ON -D WITH_GSTREAMER_0_10=OFF \
    -D WITH_CUDA=ON -D CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR=/usr/local/cuda/ -D WITH_GTK=ON \
    -D WITH_VTK=OFF -D WITH_TBB=ON -D WITH_1394=OFF -D WITH_OPENEXR=OFF \
     -D CUDA_ARCH_BIN=6.0 6.1 7.0 -D CUDA_ARCH_PTX="" -D INSTALL_C_EXAMPLES=OFF -D INSTALL_TESTS=OFF ..
RUN  cd /var/local/git/opencv/build && \ 
      make install
# Install other tools you need for development

Butterfly · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-22 17:56:41Z

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On Windows there is no "sudo apt install..." I also had all the paths set right in my PATH environment variable, and still had the same problem. I've got this working after setting following CMake Options:

only set "WITH_GSTREAMER" option to True, "WITH_GSTREAMER_0_10" MUST BE FALSE
add new entry "GSTREAMER_DIR"=(path to gstreamer) for me it was "C:/gstreamer/1.0/x86_64" I found this solution here

My OpenCV version: 3.4.3

answered Feb 22, 2019 at 17:56

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Jared Forth · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-18 04:02:24Z

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Adding new entry "GSTREAMER_DIR"=(path to gstreamer) worked for me (WITH_GSTREAMER true). Did not have a WITH_GSTREAMER_0_10 in my version.

edited Aug 18, 2020 at 4:02

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