gzdec

GStreamer gzip decoder plugin v1.2

• using zlib library for decompression
• filter-like element with a sink pad and a source pad
• works on Linux Ubuntu 16.10, 16.04 LTS, Fedora 24(x86_64)
• supports both GStreamer version 1.0 and 0.10

Build

• Please use autotool (autogen.sh)

Note for Linux system

• This will generate 2 plugins for GStreamer 1.0 and 0.10 so it requires both devel package to build.
• This also requires zlib library

[Ubuntu]

sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-* gstreamer0.10-*
sudo apt-get install zlib1g zlib1g-dev

[Fedora]

sudo dnf install gstreamer1-1.x.x gstreamer1-devel-1.x.x
sudo dnf install zlib-1.2.x zlib-static-1.2.x

Usage

gst-launch filesrc location=<input_filename.gz> ! gzdec ! filesink location=<output_filename>

Todo

• bzip support