Can I somehow tell GStreamer to look for plugins in a specified directory?
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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_default();
gst_registry_add_path(registry, directory);
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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
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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.
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1In 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
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In GStreamer 1.0 there is a function `gst_registry_scan_path()` :) – Mohammad Kanan Mar 19 '21 at 03:56
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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
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