Python Gstreamer bindings with PyGObject Only has Core modules, no Plugins

Question

I have gstreamer installed on OSX 12.0.1 Monterey. I just installed the python bindings inside of a virtual environment running python 3.9 with:

pip3 install pycairo PyGObject

I can import gi and gi.repository.Gst without an issue. However it seems that almost all gstreamer plugins are missing. This is my test script:

import gi
gi.require_versions({'Gst': '1.0'})

from gi.repository import Gst, GLib

Gst.init(None)
Gst.debug_set_active(True)
Gst.debug_set_default_threshold(5)

if not Gst.init_check()[0]:
    print("gstreamer initialization failed")


class Main:
    def __init__(self):
        self.pipeline = Gst.parse_launch('playbin uri=https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/media/small/sintel.mkv')
        self.pipeline.set_state(Gst.State.PLAYING)
        self.main_loop = GLib.MainLoop.new(None, False)
        GLib.MainLoop.run(self.main_loop)
        self.bus = self.pipeline.get_bus()
        self.msg = self.bus.timed_pop_filtered(
            Gst.CLOCK_TIME_NONE,
            Gst.MessageType.ERROR | Gst.MessageType.EOS
        )

        if self.msg is not None:
            self.msg.unref()
        self.bus.unref()
        self.pipeline.set_state(Gst.State.NULL)
        self.pipeline.unref()


Main()

It fails with:

0:00:00.006178000 92472 0x7fbd7d049210 INFO            GST_PIPELINE gstparse.c:345:gst_parse_launch_full: parsing pipeline description 'playbin uri=https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/media/small/sintel.mkv'
0:00:00.006205000 92472 0x7fbd7d049210 DEBUG           GST_PIPELINE parse.l:135:priv_gst_parse_yylex: flex: IDENTIFIER: playbin
0:00:00.006217000 92472 0x7fbd7d049210 WARN     GST_ELEMENT_FACTORY gstelementfactory.c:701:gst_element_factory_make_with_properties: no such element factory "playbin"!
0:00:00.006229000 92472 0x7fbd7d049210 ERROR           GST_PIPELINE gst/parse/grammar.y:851:priv_gst_parse_yyparse: no element "playbin"
0:00:00.006237000 92472 0x7fbd7d049210 DEBUG           GST_PIPELINE parse.l:181:priv_gst_parse_yylex: flex: SPACE: [ ]
0:00:00.006243000 92472 0x7fbd7d049210 DEBUG           GST_PIPELINE parse.l:93:priv_gst_parse_yylex: flex: ASSIGNMENT: uri=https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/media/small/sintel.mkv
0:00:00.006261000 92472 0x7fbd7d049210 DEBUG           GST_PIPELINE gst/parse/grammar.y:1228:priv_gst_parse_launch: got 0 elements and 0 links
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/python_experiments/playbin-example-audio.py", line 32, in <module>
    Main()
  File "/python_experiments/playbin-example-audio.py", line 16, in __init__
    self.pipeline = Gst.parse_launch('playbin uri=https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/media/small/sintel.mkv')

Here is the output of gst-inspect-1.0 | grep playbin:

(gst-plugin-scanner:92783): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 15:29:32.244: type name '-a-png-encoder-pred' contains invalid characters

(gst-plugin-scanner:92783): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:29:32.245: g_type_set_qdata: assertion 'node != NULL' failed

(gst-plugin-scanner:92783): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:29:32.245: g_type_set_qdata: assertion 'node != NULL' failed

(gst-plugin-scanner:92783): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 15:29:32.293: type name '-a-png-encoder-pred' contains invalid characters

(gst-plugin-scanner:92783): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:29:32.293: g_type_set_qdata: assertion 'node != NULL' failed

(gst-plugin-scanner:92783): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:29:32.293: g_type_set_qdata: assertion 'node != NULL' failed
playback:  playbin: Player Bin 2
playback:  playbin3: Player Bin 3

Do the GLib errors thrown have something to do with this? gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/media/small/sintel.mkv has no problem with video playback it just appears to be the python bindings. Are there any further debugging steps I should take before attempting to purge and reinstall gstreamer entirely?

Edit: I reinstalled gstreamer using the command: brew reinstall gstreamer gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-ugly gst-libav I then used pip to uninstall cairo and PyGObject from my venv and my system install. I then used brew install pygobject3 and tried to run the script again, this time from my python system install. Still failed

Edit: Revisiting this as my bounty expires soon. I do have access to the gstreamer core. I can make filesrc with ElementFactory.make but nothing useful.

Edit: REPL using Gst.ElementFactory.make()

>>> import gi
>>> gi.require_versions({'Gst': '1.0'})
>>> from gi.repository import Gst, GLib
>>> Gst.init(None)
[]
>>> Gst.debug_set_active(True)
>>> Gst.debug_set_default_threshold(5)
>>> Gst.ElementFactory.make('playbin', 'playbin')
0:00:12.767487000 49323 0x7fc9a2321c10 WARN     GST_ELEMENT_FACTORY gstelementfactory.c:754:gst_element_factory_make_valist: no such element factory "playbin"!
>>>

Answer 1

Playbin need to be create with Gst.ElementFactory.make

and Gst.parse_launch take a pipeline description as parameter.

Take example on this:

def __init__(self, tsm_description="audiotsm-phase-vocoder"):
        super().__init__()

        self._speed = 1.0
        self._speed_set = False

        # Create the playbin, that will handle the decoding of the audio files
        self.playbin = Gst.ElementFactory.make('playbin', 'playbin')
        self.add(self.playbin)

        # Create the audiotsm bin, that will handle the TSM
        audiotsmbin = Gst.Bin('audiotsm')

        # Create the elements of the audiotsm bin, add them, and link them
        self.tsm = Gst.parse_launch(tsm_description)
        converter = Gst.ElementFactory.make('audioconvert', 'converter')
        sink = Gst.ElementFactory.make('autoaudiosink', 'sink')

        audiotsmbin.add(self.tsm)
        audiotsmbin.add(converter)
        audiotsmbin.add(sink)

        self.tsm.link(converter)
        converter.link(sink)

        # Add the sink pad of the TSM plugin to the audiotsm bin.
        self.tsm_sink_pad = Gst.GhostPad.new(
            'sink', self.tsm.get_static_pad('sink'))
        audiotsmbin.add_pad(self.tsm_sink_pad)

        # And link it to the playbin
        self.playbin.set_property("audio-sink", audiotsmbin)

Answer 2

One solution is to iterate over all rows and compare the values with the previous row. Then we can set both rows to either Tier A or B. The following code is doing exactly this and produces your expected output. The solution of course requires that the dataframe is sorted by the Time column.

# Variables for values from the last row
prev_time = -1
prev_variable1 = -1
prev_variable2 = -1

# Iterate over all rows
for i, row in df.iterrows():
    # Extract needed values from row
    time = row[0]
    variable1 = row[1]
    variable2 = row[2]
    
    # Check if current and last row are in Tier A
    if time == prev_time and variable1 == prev_variable1:
        df.at[i-1, 'Tier'] = 'A'
        df.at[i, 'Tier'] = 'A'
        
    # Check if current and last row are in Tier B
    elif time == prev_time and variable2 == prev_variable2:
        df.at[i-1, 'Tier'] = 'B'
        df.at[i, 'Tier'] = 'B'
       
    
    # Set current row values to the previous values of next row
    prev_time = time
    prev_variable1 = variable1
    prev_variable2 = variable2

print(df)

Output:

   Time   Variable 1  Variable 2 Tier
0      1           a         URI    A
1      1           a         CVV    A
2      2           b         URI    B
3      2           c         URI    B
4      3           e         BCN    A
5      3           e         MKL    A