Can I somehow tell GStreamer to look for plugins in a specified directory?
3 Answers
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);
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.
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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