gst-inspect not listing all plugins

[David Röthlisberger]

On 19 Jan 2013, at 08:23, Yogesh Tyagi wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Yogesh Tyagi <yogesh.bit2006 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:25 PM, David Röthlisberger <david at rothlis.net> wrote:
>>> On 18 Jan 2013, at 10:30, Yogesh Tyagi wrote:
>>>> On my system gst-inspect is not able to list all the plugins.I have to
>>>> set the GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH variable every time I need to query
>>>> about the plugins.Can somebody help?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Which plugins *does* it show?
>>> 
>>> Which plugins *doesn't* it show?
>>> 
>>> For each plugin it *doesn't* show:
>>> * How did you install that plugin?
>>> * Where is that plugin installed?
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> e.g gst-inspect does't show following entry
>> 
>> ximagesrc:  ximagesrc: Ximage video source
>> 
>> until I do
>> export GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH=/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10
>> 
>> I installed all plugins by compiling source packages.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Yogesh
> 
> ping..

What does "ping" mean? That you want people to guess what your problem
is, when you don't answer the questions they asked?

Read the questions more carefully:

> Which plugins *does* gst-inspect show?
>
> Which plugins *doesn't* gst-inspect show?
>
> For each plugin gst-inspect *doesn't* show:
> * How did you install that plugin?
> * Where is that plugin installed?

I'll add one more question:

For each plugin gst-inspect *does* show, where is that plugin installed?

Another way you could investigate this is by enabling debug and
analysing the output:

    GST_DEBUG=4 gst-inspect

If you don't care to understand the root cause of the problem by
investigating the above, then you could just set GST_PLUGIN_PATH in your
shell's rc file so that it is always set to the value you want.