How to install with GStreamer support

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
opencv, python
Domain
build-system, developer-experience

Research direction

Start with the reported pip install opencv-contrib-python command and cv2.getBuildInformation() output on macOS, then review the project's package and build documentation for GStreamer support in published wheels. Done means a documented, reproducible installation path or a clearly stated limitation; the issue names no source file or test.

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Description

I used the "pip install opencv-contrib-python" method and if I run the following:

import cv2
print(cv2.getBuildInformation())

I can plainly see that GStreamer isn't enabled. I'm not very adept at the sublteties of pip, wheels, brew, etc. I've look over lots of articles that attempt to walk through building and installing opencv with GStreamer, but I haven't found anything specific to opencv-python. Ultimately, I nave not succeeded yet in installing opencv with GStreamer support (I'm on a Mac).

Does anyone know how to just make this work?

Thank you.

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