# Build gstreamer plugins (good,bad,ugly) for windows

**URL:** https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/build-gstreamer-plugins-good-bad-ugly-for-windows/4829
**Category:** General Discussion
**Tags:** windows
**Created:** [July 7, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/build-gstreamer-plugins-good-bad-ugly-for-windows/4829 "2025-07-07T15:57:28Z")
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### Author: ![al072](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@al072](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/u/al072)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/build-gstreamer-plugins-good-bad-ugly-for-windows/4829/1 "2025-07-07T15:57:28Z")

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Hello dear community! I am struglin the 2nd day with building plugins for windows.  
Here is my command string for VS Native Tools Command Prompt (i use MSVC 2022):

```auto
meson setup build ^
 --default-library=shared ^
 -Dauto_features=disabled ^
 -Dbase=enabled ^
 -Dgood=enabled ^
 -Dbad=enabled ^
 -Dugly=enabled ^
 -Dlibav=enabled ^
 -Dprefix=C:/gstreamer/install

```

after i call: ninja -C build install ,  
My question is where to find good,bad,base,ugly plugins? They are missing in install dir…

I am using this branch for buildding process: [GitHub - GStreamer/gstreamer at 1.26](https://github.com/GStreamer/gstreamer/tree/1.26)

Thank you!!!

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### Author: ![ocrete](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/user_avatar/discourse.gstreamer.org/ocrete/32/33_2.png) [@ocrete](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/u/ocrete)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/build-gstreamer-plugins-good-bad-ugly-for-windows/4829/2 "2025-07-07T19:34:33Z")

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If you pass `-Dauto-features=disabled`, you need to enable each plugin one by one.. For example, if you want the the audioconvert plugin, you’d need to add `-Dgst-plugins-base:audioconvert=enabled`, etc

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### Author: ![al072](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@al072](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/u/al072)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/build-gstreamer-plugins-good-bad-ugly-for-windows/4829/3 "2025-07-07T20:45:38Z")

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Thank you very much! Could you please tell me where to find all this correct full plugin names i should pass to meson setup build? And wich one i really need to get: good,bad,ugly,base libs for windows environment? Hope you give me a hand!!!

My final goal is to run the following video pipeline with OpenCV:

```auto
  std::string pipeline =
      "udpsrc port=52356 caps=\"application/x-rtp, payload=97, encoding-name=H265\" ! "
      "rtph265depay ! h265parse ! avdec_h265 ! videoconvert ! appsink";

  cv::VideoCapture cap(pipeline, cv::CAP_GSTREAMER);
  if (!cap.isOpened()) {
      std::cerr << "Error: Cannot open video stream using GStreamer pipeline!" << std::endl;
      return -1;
  }

```

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### Author: ![ocrete](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/user_avatar/discourse.gstreamer.org/ocrete/32/33_2.png) [@ocrete](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/u/ocrete)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/build-gstreamer-plugins-good-bad-ugly-for-windows/4829/4 "2025-07-07T21:07:16Z")

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You can see the full list of options by running `meson configure`. In this pipelkine, you also want to add a `rtpjitterbuffer` so it should be something like: `"udpsrc port=52356 caps=\"application/x-rtp, payload=97, encoding-name=H265\" ! rtpjitterbuffer ! rtph265depay ! h265parse ! avdec_h265 ! videoconvert ! appsink`  
You want at least `-Dgst-plugins-good:rtp=enabled -Dgst-plugins-good:rtpmanager=enabled -Dgst-plugins-base:udp=enabled -Dgst-plugins-base:app=enabled -Dlibav=enabled -Dgst-plugins-base:videoconvert=enabled` and I’m sure I’m missing some.  
You can use the [factories tracer](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/coretracers/factories.html?gi-language=c) on a full GStreamer build to see exactly what gets used.

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### Author: ![al072](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@al072](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/u/al072)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/build-gstreamer-plugins-good-bad-ugly-for-windows/4829/5 "2025-07-07T21:21:21Z")

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Ok! Great!!! Let you know the results. Thank you

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### Author: ![al072](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@al072](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/u/al072)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/build-gstreamer-plugins-good-bad-ugly-for-windows/4829/6 "2025-07-07T23:34:30Z")

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Here is my sdp file:

```auto
v=0
o=- 0 0 IN IP4 127.0.0.1
s=No Name
c=IN IP4 127.0.0.1
t=0 0
m=video 52356 RTP/AVP 97
a=rtpmap:97 H265/90000

```

Here is ffmpeg command to play the live stream (it works):  
`ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist file,udp,rtp -i sdp.sdp -f sdl2 -`

Here is my final setup:

```auto
 meson setup build ^
 --default-library=shared ^
 --prefix=C:/gstreamer/install ^
 -Dauto_features=disabled ^
 -Dgst-plugins-good:rtp=enabled ^
 -Dgst-plugins-good:udp=enabled ^
 -Dgst-plugins-bad:videoparsers=enabled ^
 -Dgst-plugins-base:videoconvertscale=enabled ^
 -Dgst-plugins-base:app=enabled ^
 -Dgst-plugins-good:rtpmanager=enabled ^
 -Dlibav=enabled ^
 -Dgst-plugins-base:videoconvert=enabled ^
 -Dgst-plugins-bad:sdp=enabled

```

This is a branch i cloned the sorce from:  
`https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer`

This is a stream pipeline:  
`"udpsrc port=52356 caps=\"application/x-rtp, payload=97, encoding-name=H265\" ! rtpjitterbuffer ! rtph265depay ! h265parse ! avdec_h265 ! videoconvert ! appsink`"

What am i doing wrong? How to make the stream work with sdp file?