[gst-devel] Gstreamer can not find installed plugins

[Tim Müller]

On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 09:48 +0800, Joyious He wrote:

> But one more thing about this is, I need to disable gst-debug to
> reduce some CPU circles. so I did this when configure the gstreamer,
> and then a lot of plugins are gone including mad and osssink and
> audiotestsrc this things even after i recompile and reinstall all the
> plugins. 
> 
> and the debug is disabled I can not get the debug messages as before.
> if i just enable the gst-debug in gstreamer without rebuilding the
> plugins, all the plugins get back and do works.

When plugins fail to load it's often because of an unresolved symbol.
Try:

  ldd -r  $prefix/lib/gstreamer/libgstcoreelements.so

where $prefix is your install prefix, and see if it says something about
unresolved symbols.

Cheers
 -Tim