Phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.9.0

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# 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-8.4 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/phonon/phonon-backend-gstreamer/4.9.0/phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.9.0.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: b2b0ca327908948ce8cdba117e31bf80

- Download size: 80 KB

- Estimated disk space required: 4.5 MB

- Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

### Phonon-backend-gstreamer Dependencies

#### Required

gstreamer-1.14.4, libxml2-2.9.9, and phonon-4.10.2

#### Recommended

gst-plugins-base-1.14.4 (needed for output to ALSA), gst-plugins-good-1.14.4 (needed for output to PulseAudio), gst-plugins-bad-1.14.4 (needed for AAC/M4A support), and gst-plugins-ugly-1.14.4 (needed for MP3 support)

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

## Installation of Phonon-backend-gstreamer

### 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 2019-02-19 16:02:39 -0600

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