GStreamer plugin search path?

Question

Can I somehow tell GStreamer to look for plugins in a specified directory?

score 25 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 02 '22 at 10:10

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Use the GST_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable to point at the directory you want, or programatically just call:

GstRegistry *registry;
registry = gst_registry_get();
gst_registry_scan_path(registry, directory);

edited Aug 02 '22 at 10:10

Xiao

answered Feb 06 '10 at 13:41

Johan Dahlin

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`gst_registry_get_default()` was replaced with `gst_registry_get()` , `gst_registry_add_path()` COULD be replaced with `gst_registry_scan_path()` – Mohammad Kanan Mar 19 '21 at 03:57

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 31 '19 at 19:16

6

You can no longer do this programmatically in gstreamer 1.0.

In the above answer,

gst_registry_get_default() was replaced with gst_registry_get() and gst_registry_add_path() was removed.

You can also set GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH to the location of the Plugins. Not sure what the difference is between this and GST_PLUGIN_PATH though.

edited Jul 31 '19 at 19:16

AS Mackay

answered Jul 31 '19 at 18:57

KDawg

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In GStreamer 1.0 there is a function gst_registry_add_plugin () https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/gstreamer/gstregistry.html?gi-language=c#gst_registry_add_plugin – Corey Cole Jun 16 '20 at 20:48
In GStreamer 1.0 there is a function `gst_registry_scan_path()` :) – Mohammad Kanan Mar 19 '21 at 03:56

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 17 '20 at 07:26

2

In case you are running GStreamer from command line you may add --gst-plugin-path=PATHS to the command

Example adding current directory as plugins path

gst-inspect-1.0 kvssink --gst-plugin-path=$PWD

There is much more useful commands available just check:

gst-launch-1.0 --help-gst

edited Nov 17 '20 at 07:26

Aposhian

answered Jan 26 '20 at 14:35

Łukasz Gawron

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