[gst-devel] help wrt loading the gstreamer plugins

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hi,


>      1. XML and Registry in gstreamer:
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> 
> When is this registry.xml file generated first time?

Every call to gst_init() checks if the registry needs to be rebuilt,
internally.  See gstreamer/gst/gst.c

>  And how is it generated? How is this file used in gstreamer? Is it
> used for loading plugins dynamically?

Yes; once the registry object is created plugins can be loaded based on
its information.

Thomas