[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 393461] [Real] Location of .so varies on each distribution

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------- Comment #2 from Hans de Goede  2007-06-30 18:34 UTC -------
Created an attachment (id=90941)
 --> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=90941&action=view)
PATCH: add a plugin search path to the real decoders

Hi all,

Short intro (again) I'm the livna gstreamer plugins maintainer. I've solved the
issue of where to find the .so files, and under what name, by adding 2
different properties which are used to find 1 .so

1 global (as in shared by all .so's to search) directory search path, ':'
seperated
and 1 per .so (for example cook) names search path, for cook this is for
example by default: "cook.so:cook.so.6.0"

This 2 dimensional approach makes it easy to make the plugin look in various
places and find the needed files under various names. I've tried to put sane
defaults in this patch, but there might be names / paths missing.

This way it will work on any distro, and even better it will work independend
of how the users got the .so files. For example with this patch the plugin will
also search under the default RealPlayer install location, thus if a user has
downloaded and installed the realplayer rpm from real, the .so's will be found
too.


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