Package request: GStreamer 1.23.X unstable development release

[RSWilli]

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Gstreamer released 1.23.1 as an unstable development release before 1.24 gets released

Gstreamer 1.22.X is already packaged https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/development/libraries/gstreamer/core/default.nix#L115 but the unstable version would be nice if it were included in nixpkgs

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(same as current gstreamer)

• homepage URL: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/

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[RSWilli]

@lilyinstarlight tagging you since you are maintaining the stable version. Do you think this is something worth adding to nixpkgs?

[surfaceflinger]

Not sure how GStreamer release cycle looks but 1.23.1 now supports AV1 encoding through VAAPI which would be useful for obs-studio and obs-studio-plugins.obs-vaapi

[RSWilli]

1.23.X is marked as unstable because they are preparing the 1.24 release in a couple of days/weeks. For testing purposes though (and for the development of my bindings in go https://github.com/go-gst/go-gst) the 1.23.X would be useful though.

Maybe one could use an overlay to do it themselves? (I am pretty new to nix, I didn't use overlays yet)

[surfaceflinger]

For you, the best solution would be to create flake.nix in rootdir of go-gst for packaging the project itself, then outputing two packages - go-gst with regular, nixpkgs upstream gstreamer and another package that has gst with overriden version+src in buildInputs

but thats offtopic

regarding OBS, I'll experiment when I'll have some free time and just paste here a drop-in overlay for obs-vaapi but no guarantees here

[RSWilli]

since gstreamer 1.24.0 was released, this issue is obsolescent. I'm adding the update request for the stable update to #287253