Detecting whether the effects from the opengl plugin can be used

[Ian Davidson]

Hi Alex,

Could you try to link opengl into your pipeline and see if you were 
successful?

Ian


On 12/10/2017 21:51, Alexandru Băluț wrote:
> In Pitivi we'd like to hide the GL effects when the system has no GL 
> component. A quick inspection (gst-inspect-1.0 | grep -i gl) shows 
> these effects are provided by the "opengl" plugin, so for now we only 
> care about the "opengl" plugin from gst-plugins-bad.
>
> How can we programmatically figure out beforehand whether these 
> effects can be used?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex