[gst-devel] Checking whether gstreamer has been initialized

[Braden McDaniel]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 16:46 -0700, David Schleef wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 04:47:21PM -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> > I have a library in which I will be embedding GStreamer (via a local 
> > plug-in). It looks like I will have to push the responsibility of 
> > calling gst_init onto my library's users; after all they may want to use 
> > GStreamer in other ways in their applications.
> > 
> > If the user has neglected to call gst_init, I would like to be able to 
> > provide feedback indicating the problem. So is there any way I can check 
> > to see if gst_init has been called?
> 
> I recommend having a yourlibrary_init() that calls gst_init().
> gst_init() can be called multiple times with no side-effects.  You
> might lose handling of --gst command line options, but that's
> probably a good thing.

I thought about that. However, the problem then becomes knowing whether
it's appropriate for my library to call gst_deinit. I shouldn't call it
if the user may be using gstreamer elsewhere after shutting down my
library. (Right?)

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