Avoiding the GST_PLUGIN_PATH Environment Variable on Windows

[Gordon Nickel]

Thanks for the advice - very helpful! 

Gordon Nickel

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> On Nov 22, 2013, at 5:38 PM, "David Schleef" <ds at schleef.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Windows, GStreamer will also scan DIR/lib/gstreamer-1.0/, where
> DIR is the output of g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module().
> This is often exactly what you want in the case where you bundle
> GStreamer with an application.
> 
> 
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 01:53:00PM -0800, gordeaoux wrote:
>> Is there a way to tell GStreamer where the plugin directory is without
>> setting an environment variable? 
>> 
>> The app is in c++ and uses gst_parse_launch() to create the pipeline. I know
>> there's a way to tell gst-launch of the plugin path, but I couldn't find a
>> comparable function in regular GStreamer.
>> 
>> I have a few different projects that rely on GStreamer, but are on different
>> versions, so it would be convenient to not have to set the variable every
>> time I switch apps or install a new one. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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