Embedding scripting language in a filter element

[Josh Doe]

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Josh Doe <josh at joshdoe.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Michael Grüner
> <michael.gruner at ridgerun.com> wrote:
>> The core won't handle python elements by itself. The trick is that there is
>> a python plugin that works as a python element loader that will do the job.
>
> Thank you for the explanation. It appears the Python plugin was never
> ported to 1.0. Here's the 0.10 version:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-python/tree/plugin/gstpythonplugin.c?h=0.10
>
> Not sure why it was completely removed from the master branch, it
> seems like it should be possible to port it to 1.0. Biggest change
> would be using GI instead of PyGTK I think.

FYI, I looked into porting this myself, but I have zero knowledge of
PyGObject, so created a bug for it:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723767