I installed the ubuntu desktop on my Efika MX. I try to run youtube or any video, and it asks for plugins. How do I get the FSL MMC codecs with gst working with my ubuntu install.
I have the 2.6.31.12 Efika MX kernel on my genesi open client box. i do not know how to check if the VPU libs/FSL codecs are present.
gst_inspect or any gst command is not recognized.

thanks

Hi Tom,

There are two things at fault here

1) we do not ship the codecs by default because they are a little flakey. The overlay handler has an issue where it kills off the display (or blinks on and off as if it's continually trying to do a screensaver or switch VTs) and some of the codecs (probably the container demuxers) don't play very common files.

2) Ubuntu Desktop doesn't come with the gst-* tools by default. To get gst_launch and gst_inspect you need to .

If you have access to the Freescale BSP (check the Freescale site) then you have access to the codec libraries already and they will install under Karmic just fine (make sure they are the BSP "09.12.00" version). We are working on a better solution, but in the meantime.. gstreamer0.10-plugin-ffmpeg might be your best bet. Expect it not to display very fast (although decoding should be really rather decent in a raw frames-per-second benchmark with no display).

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Matt Sealey