You can drop files into the plugin directory and they'll be picked up. On my Xubuntu for example: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/ However IMHO using environment variable <code>GST_PLUGIN_PATH</code> to override the search path is a better thing to do during development. <div class="gmail_quote">On 31 October 2012 10:55, Mandeep Sandhu <<a href="mailto:mandeepsandhu.chd@gmail.com" target="_blank">mandeepsandhu.chd@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Anyone? How does one make an existing gstreamer package (installed in Ubuntu 12.10) recognize/register a custom plugin? Thanks, -mandeep <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Mandeep Sandhu <<a href="mailto:mandeepsandhu.chd@gmail.com">mandeepsandhu.chd@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm newbie who's recently jumped into playing around with GStreamer. > > I have gone through "GStreamer Application Development Manual" to get > a basic idea of the various Gstreamer concepts. Currently, I'm reading > the "GStreamer Plugin Writer's Guide (1.0.2)" to get a very basic > plugin working (only for my own understanding). > > For creating the basic template of a plugin, I was using the > "make_element" tool which comes along with the gst-template repo. > > The template code created by this tool compiles fine, however it does > not get recognized when I try to use it a sample pipeline. I construct > the pipline as follows (after building the plugin): > > $ gst-launch-0.10 -v > --gst-plugin-path=/home/mandeep/work/gstreamer/gst-template/gst-plugin/src/.libs/ > fakesrc ! myfilter ! fakesink silent=TRUE > WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "myfilter" > $ > > Somehow, my plugin is not 'registered' with gstreamer. Any idea how to > get this working? > > The plugin guide has a "NOTE" that states one should use > "gst-element-maker" from the gst-plugins-bad repo. However, the > template code created by this tool does not compile. Here's what I > did: > > $ gst-element-maker MyFilter basesink > ../../../gst-plugins-bad/tools/gst-element-maker: 376: > ../../../gst-plugins-bad/tools/gst-element-maker: gst-indent: not > found > pkg is gstreamer-base-0.10 > gstmyfilter.c: In function ‘gst_myfilter_base_init’: > gstmyfilter.c:109:3: warning: implicit declaration of function > ‘gst_element_class_set_static_metadata’ > [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] > gstmyfilter.c: At top level: > gstmyfilter.c:324:1: error: ‘myfilter’ undeclared here (not in a function) > > Any idea how to fix this error? > > The files generated by the above command are: gstmyfilter.h and > gstmyfilter.c (I have altered Makefile.am accordingly to add these 2 > new files for building. > > Regards, > -mandeep _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>