<div>On 6/15/06, Christophe Dehais <<a href="mailto:christophe.dehais@gmail.com">christophe.dehais@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>Hello, First what I wanted to do worked, I'm just trying to better understand how gstreamer works. I was trying to figure out the best way to organise my code for an application and a static plugin (not compiled as .so) I used the plugin template to generate gstmyplugin.[ch] and I just replaced the GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE by the GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE_STATIC in gstmyplugin.c. Looking at the definition of the GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE_STATIC macro, it creates a function: _gst_plugin_static_init__my_plugin_init () that simply fills a GstPluginDesc structure and then call _gst_plugin_register_static (). So my question is: when is this function called when I execute my application ? I had nothing to change to the app code, just had it linked with the produced gstmyplugin.o and gstreamer is able to find my custom plugin (gst_factory_make( </div></blockquote></div>[oups shortcup pb. The end:] gst_factor_make("my_plugin", "filter"); just works Thanks for explanations Christophe