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Port details on branch 2026Q4
gstreamer1-libav GStreamer plug-in with many audio/video decoders/encoders
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Maintainer: multimedia@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-10-12 04:34:44
Last Update: 2026-10-12 04:28:21
Commit Hash: d2b6442
License: LGPL20+
WWW:
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
Description:
The GStreamer libav package provides mpeg support for GStreamer. It includes codecs for most popular formats, and optimized colourspace conversion.
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Manual pages:
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pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/gstreamer1-libav-1.28.8/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/gstreamer1-libav-1.28.8/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/gstreamer1-libav-1.28.8/LGPL20+
  4. lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstlibav.so
  5. @owner
  6. @group
  7. @mode
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Dependency lines:
  • gstreamer1-libav>0:multimedia/gstreamer1-libav
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer1-libav/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install multimedia/gstreamer1-libav
  • pkg install gstreamer1-libav
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: gstreamer1-libav
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1791658059 SHA256 (gst-libav-1.28.8.tar.xz) = 98ad3d7f8932c495e268708903f1c3388d5f26a0db34727a9f861ee23b724177 SIZE (gst-libav-1.28.8.tar.xz) = 224460

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. orc>=0.4.16 : devel/orc
  2. bison : devel/bison
  3. gettext-runtime>=0.26 : devel/gettext-runtime
  4. gstreamer1-plugins>=1.28.8 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins
  5. meson : devel/meson
  6. ninja : devel/ninja
  7. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  8. python3.12 : lang/python312
Runtime dependencies:
  1. gstreamer1-plugins>=1.28.8 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins
Library dependencies:
  1. liborc-0.4.so : devel/orc
  2. libavcodec.so : multimedia/ffmpeg
  3. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  4. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  5. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  6. libgstreamer-1.0.so : multimedia/gstreamer1
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
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Options name:
multimedia_gstreamer1-libav
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bison gettext-runtime gnome gstreamer libtool localbase meson ninja pkgconfig python:build shebangfix tar:xz
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-libav/
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Number of commits found: 1

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1.28.8
12 Oct 2026 04:28:21
commit hash: d2b644208d645a98ae4c694fda2a1db1738cac53commit hash: d2b644208d645a98ae4c694fda2a1db1738cac53commit hash: d2b644208d645a98ae4c694fda2a1db1738cac53commit hash: d2b644208d645a98ae4c694fda2a1db1738cac53 files touched by this commit
Jason E. Hale (jhale) search for other commits by this committer
GStreamer1: Update to 1.28.8

Changes: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.28/#1.28.7
	 https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.28/#1.28.8

MFH:		2026Q4
Security:	bfa621d9-e508-4e3e-9a15-c2b54929ea77
(cherry picked from commit 30a7e19ff077d4217ce37505dee5dea4ec89e3c0)

Number of commits found: 1