Gstreamer is not working (Windows)

David Ing ding at panopto.com
Mon Jun 22 18:56:10 UTC 2020


As a followup on what Nirbheek said, this might be helpful:
http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/msvc-build-can-t-find-elements-in-playback-plugin-td4691649.html#a4691668

Basically you need to clear the plugin cache whenever you go between mingw
and msvc builds.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:36 AM Nirbheek Chauhan <
nirbheek.chauhan at gmail.com> wrote:

> This can also happen if you've accidentally installed both the MSVC
> binaries and the MinGW binaries. You should only install one of them. What
> are the contents of C:\gstreamer\1.0\x86_64\bin ?
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:00 PM Michael Gouveia <mggunman at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> So, I'm new to GStreamer and I've taken the safe route by downloading the
>> pre-built binaries from https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/ for
>> windows. I believe I've installed it fully by downloading MSVC runtime and
>> development versions for VS 2019. But when I try to run a GStreamer command
>> I always get something similar to what is shown below.
>>
>>
>> Below is a snippet of the issue, when I run 'gst-device-monitor-1.0' via
>> command line to access my built-in webcam as I'm running this on a work
>> laptop.
>>
>> I might be missing an environment variable or path. These are my current
>> system variables, I've set:
>>
>> My current PATH, I've set:
>>
>> I was told the issue could be strawberryperl being above gstreamer in the
>> path, but I've changed that since and the issue is still persistent.
>>
>>
>> System Info:
>>
>> Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
>>
>> Intel i5-5300U
>>
>> 8GB Ram
>>
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