[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 549879] gst-python managing sys.argv while it shouldn't

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  GStreamer | gst-python | Ver: 0.10.12

Edward Hervey changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |




------- Comment #8 from Edward Hervey  2009-03-31 10:24 UTC -------
Tobias, as I said, we can't do this without introducing a regression (all
current applications expect sys.argv to be parsed when doing 'import gst').

Furthermore, we currently can't split up the gstreamer initialisation from the
argument parsing.

Let's suppose we were to pass no argv to gst_init() (ex: gst_init(NULL,
NULL)).... well we can't call that method again with the proper argv (using an
explicit call after the gst import) because gstreamer will already be
initialized and gst_init() will return straight away.

The problem is that we *need* to call gst_init() before using anything
GStreamer related (else you won't have any types registered, etc...).

So basically... the problem is in core. We need to be able to split up the
initialization from the argument parsing.


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