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I have been trying to get this running for the past couple of days now. I have a gstreamer command that requires x264enc. I am running a Mac I cannot seem to get x264 development libraries installed. I have installed gst-plugins-bad but that does not help. I read in forums I need to install x264 libraries first before installing gst-plugins-bad

I also tried VideoLAN's http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html That did not help either. I don't know what I'm missing. If it was Linux I could install the x264-devel packages. But I can't seem to find an alternative to that on Mac El Capitan.

The error I get is:

WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "x264enc"

Please help.

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Try: brew install gst-plugins-ugly --with-x264

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Homebrew has removed all additional options (grr!) so --with-x264 no longer works. Does anyone know how to get 264 now? Is it just part of gst-plugins-ugly now?
@JasonAxelson yes it should work without the --with-x264
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x264enc is in gst-plugins-ugly, have you installed that? Homebrew is a popular package manager for macOS, installing gstreamer and x264 using that may be helpful also.

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Build all module of GStreamer in follows sequence:

(1) Gstreamer-1.0 (2) gst-libav-1.8.3 (3) gst-plugins-base-1.8.3 (4) gst-plugins-good-1.8.3 (5) gst-plugins-bad-1.8.3 (6) gst-plugins-ugly-1.8.3

Set below path :

export PATH=$PATH:<install_dir_path>/bin export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<install_dir_path>/lib export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=<install_dir_path>/lib/gstreamer-1.0
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For me, it started working after I installed ugly package. I use Ubuntu, my install command is:

sudo apt install -y gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly

Similar case with solution

I had the similar issue with Ubuntu 22.04. But my first missing package was qtdemux. Originally I followed @brendan-shanks's answer (it worked) and on another machine tried @pooja's answer.

My command looks like this:

gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location="/home/ubuntu/countdown_10_min.mp4" ! qtdemux ! video/x-h264 ! rtph264pay ! udpsink host=127.0.0.1 port=8004

Following @pooja's solution I'v run several commands before it started working:

sudo apt install -y gstreamer1.0-plugins-base sudo apt install -y gstreamer1.0-libav sudo apt install -y gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly sudo apt install -y gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad

I don't know if qtdemux is in plugins-bad but only after that I was able to run my stream.

So, in similar case I would check packages @pooja have mentioned. For Ubuntu they are:

sudo apt install -y gstreamer1.0-tools sudo apt install -y gstreamer1.0-libav sudo apt install -y gstreamer1.0-plugins-base sudo apt install -y gstreamer1.0-plugins-good sudo apt install -y gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad sudo apt install -y gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
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# building gst-plugins-ugly export version=1.14.5 echo "building gst-plugins-ugly-$version" cd $PROJECT_DIR/gst-plugins-ugly-$version ./autogen.sh ./configure --with-x264-libraries=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libx264.so make -j8 sudo make install
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