Gst good plugins installed but - no element "autovideosink"

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I am following the GStreamer basic tutorials. Good plugins installed. Tutorial 2 (which includes building a pipeline in C with autovideosink) works fine - so autovideosink element is obviously present - where it should be. However - Tutorial 10 (GStreamer Tools) where I'm trying to use autovideosink from a command line does not work. (This is an Ubuntu 16.04 environment)

# any attempt to use autovideosink says no element
$ gst-inspect-1.0 autovideosink
No such element or plugin 'autovideosink'

# good plugins installed
$ dpkg -l | grep gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:amd64
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:amd64             1.8.3-1ubuntu0.4                             amd64        GStreamer plugins from the "good" set

# shared object file is present
$ locate libgstautodetect.so /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstautodetect.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstautodetect.so

Searching Stackoverflow and other places, I see people asked the same question but the question went unanswered.

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1 Answers

this is a path problem. see this link: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/design/missing-plugins.html
To see the path you need (in my case autovideo sink is in the libgstautodetect.so)

locate libgstautodetect.so /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstautodetect.so

should see: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstautodetect.so
so then add that to the gstreamer path

export GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0=$GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0
echo $GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0

you should see: :/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0
and now it works:

gst-inspect-1.0 autovideosink
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