I am currently trying to explore using the whispertranscriber element for windows and so installed the latest version of Gstreamer 1.28.6 but saw the element was not present.
I pulled down the latest version of gst-plugin-rs and compiled the plugin myself in debug mode and it works just fine for me locally.
I did not see any release notes that mentioned that the whisper plugin was excluded from windows. Is there an installer option I am missing or was this an intentional choice?
Not entirely trivial to ship on all platforms unfortunately (same for the new llama.cpp plugin).
See gst-plugins-rs: ship new whisper and debugseimetainserter plugins (!2133) · Merge requests · GStreamer / cerbero · GitLab for a work-in-progress merge request to ship it.
Thank you for the update. Is there a way that the docs be more clear on platform availability of elements? I understand that we have gst-inspect but have it accessible in a document would be helpful. I assumed based on the online docs and the release notes that the element would be available starting with version 1.28.1. Gstreamer 1.28 release notes
Not all plugins are included in the binary packages, and it’s not unusual that it takes a while for new plugins to be added in some cases.
Where would you look for information that some new plugins are not yet included?
My assumption was that if something is included in the release notes that it would be available on at least some platforms. To be more precise in my question:
Is there a document that indicates what elements/plugins are provided in a release of Gstreamer? Does this document list them by platform?
I work with Gstreamer on windows very frequently and sometimes I want to research and find what elements are available by searching through the documents online but having to check against gst-inspect locally. Having a document that list the available elements by platform without having the use gst-inspect would help and make the process of element finding much easier.
