[gst-devel] How to register dfbvideosink

[Stefan Kost]

hi,

Am Freitag, den 09.06.2006, 18:44 -0400 schrieb Wolfson, Alexander:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am experimenting with gstreamer-0.10.0 on the Xscale based board
> 
> Gstreamer generaly works well.
> 
> I did not used gst-plugins-bad before, but needed something for video
> testing, so I decided to use dfbvideosink for testing the video.
> 
> After compiling bad plugins I put libgstdfbvideosink.so into
> /usr/gst/lib/gstreamer-0.10 on the board
> All other plugin's libraries are in the same place.
> 
> gst-inspect does not show this plugin.
> 
> I thought may be something wrong with the plugin, so I renamed
> libgstwaveparse.so into libgstdfbvideosink.so
> 
> gst-inspect dfbvideosink does not show it either. 
> 
> Is gst-inspect NAME is not based on the name of the file libNAME.so?
>
No the name comes from the satic plugin-info structure. Build you gst
with --enable-gst-debug and run
GST_DEBUG="GST_REGISTRY:4" gst-inspect-0.10 2>debug.log

and check debug.log afterwards. It will tell you whats going wrong. Very
likely a missing symbol in the plugin-library.

> 
> Am I missing some step, or I have a bad dfbvideosink plugin?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex

Stefan