thanks; Not able to find the patch. Do you have the link from where I can get this and try it out. -Pawan <div>On 12/13/06, Michael Smith <<a href="mailto:msmith@fluendo.com"> msmith@fluendo.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;">On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 15:00 +0530, Kumar, Pawan wrote: > Hi, > > I found that gst_init() takes lot of time to initialize. > Is anybody tried to thin down it ? > Any suggestions on how to do it ? gst_init() loads the registry, and checks that it's up to date. It also rebuilds the registry if it's out of date - that's usually the bit that's very slow, but it doesn't normally happen (it only occurs if you've changed your plugins). It shouldn't be overly slow if you have an up to date registry (though it's still loading a large XML file and parsing it, then stat()ing all the plugins). There's a binary registry patch in bugzilla - I'm not sure how complete it is, but that should speed things up a little bit over using an XML parser. Mike </blockquote></div> -- Pawan Kumar 9845242729