WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "nvvidconv" inside docker

Hello this pipeline is working fine on my jetson nano:

gst-launch-1.0 -vvv v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! 'image/jpeg, width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, pixel-aspect-ratio=(fraction)1/1, framerate=(fraction)60/1' ! jpegdec ! nvvidconv ! nvoverlaysink sync=False qos=True

However when I run the same pipeline inside a docker container that is built using:

docker build -t switch -f dockerfiles/Dockerfile.main .

where my Dockerfile.main is:

ARG BASE_IMAGE=nvcr.io/nvidia/l4t-base:r32.4.2
FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}

ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive


# needed for accessing jetpack.  This is for 4.4
COPY  ./dockerfiles/nvidia-l4t-apt-source.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-l4t-apt-source.list
COPY  ./dockerfiles/jetson-ota-public.asc /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/jetson-ota-public.asc


#
# install prerequisites (many of these are for numpy)
#
RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y libopencv-python && \
    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
            python3-pip \
            python3-dev \
            libopenblas-dev \
            libopenmpi2 \
            openmpi-bin \
            openmpi-common \
            gfortran \
            libjpeg-dev \
            libopenmpi-dev \
            libomp-dev \
            zlib1g-dev \
            libpython3-dev \
            libavcodec-dev \
            libavformat-dev \
            libswscale-dev \
            python3-scipy \
            python3-matplotlib \
            python3-tk \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
	git \
	build-essential \
    libjpeg-dev \
	zlib1g-dev \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

#
# ffmpeg
#
RUN echo "deb https://repo.download.nvidia.com/jetson/ffmpeg main main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list && \
    echo "deb-src https://repo.download.nvidia.com/jetson/ffmpeg main main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list && \
    sudo apt update && \
    sudo apt install ffmpeg

RUN sudo apt-get install -y v4l-utils

#
# gstreamer
#
RUN apt-get install -y \ 
    gstreamer-1.0  \
    gstreamer1.0-dev \
    libgirepository1.0-dev \
    libcairo2-dev \
    gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 \
    libgstreamer1.0-0 \
    gstreamer1.0-plugins-base \
    gstreamer1.0-plugins-good \
    gstreamer1.0-libav \
    gstreamer1.0-doc \
    gstreamer1.0-tools \
    gstreamer1.0-x \
    gstreamer1.0-alsa \
    gstreamer1.0-gl \
    gstreamer1.0-gtk3 \
    gstreamer1.0-qt5 \
    gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio \
    pulseaudio \
    libgstreamer1.0-dev \
    libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev \
    libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-dev \
    libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev \
    gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad \
    gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly


RUN pip3 install --upgrade setuptools
RUN pip3 install Jetson.GPIO

# # Run main python file
CMD ["/bin/bash", "./run.sh"]

and run:

docker run --name ${DOCKER_NAME}  --privileged=True -it --rm ${DOCKER_NAME}  bash

Then run the same gstreamer command as above, I get:

WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "nvvidconv"

And it doesn’t work. Any idea why this happens inside docker ?

Hi,
Please check if the csv file is loaded:

/etc/nvidia-container-runtime/host-files-for-container.d/l4t.csv

And make sure the line is in the csv file:

lib, /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstnvvidconv.so

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Just to answer your question the line is included but the file isn’t loaded.
I ran:

sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep nvidia
nvidia-cuda                                     install
nvidia-cudnn8                                   install
nvidia-l4t-3d-core                              install
nvidia-l4t-apt-source                           install
nvidia-l4t-bootloader                           install
nvidia-l4t-camera                               install
nvidia-l4t-configs                              install
nvidia-l4t-core                                 install
nvidia-l4t-cuda                                 install
nvidia-l4t-firmware                             install
nvidia-l4t-gputools                             install
nvidia-l4t-graphics-demos                       install
nvidia-l4t-gstreamer                            install
nvidia-l4t-init                                 install
nvidia-l4t-initrd                               install
nvidia-l4t-jetson-io                            install
nvidia-l4t-kernel                               install
nvidia-l4t-kernel-dtbs                          install
nvidia-l4t-kernel-headers                       install
nvidia-l4t-libvulkan                            install
nvidia-l4t-multimedia                           install
nvidia-l4t-multimedia-utils                     install
nvidia-l4t-oem-config                           install
nvidia-l4t-tools                                install
nvidia-l4t-wayland                              install
nvidia-l4t-weston                               install
nvidia-l4t-x11                                  install
nvidia-l4t-xusb-firmware                        install
nvidia-opencv                                   install
nvidia-tensorrt                                 install
nvidia-vpi                                      install

looks like nvidia-runtime isn’t installed so should I reflash the nano, or is there a way to install it without reflashing ?

Hi,
Please try the command with –runtime. May refer to
JetPack 4.5.1 docker runtime=nvidia - #3 by AastaLLL

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