<div dir="ltr">Another option is to set an environment variable GST_PLUGIN_PATH which points to a folder where your plugins are stored. Sorry I didn't notify you a day earlier.</div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 7:42 AM William Johnston <<a href="mailto:wgj@cast.uark.edu">wgj@cast.uark.edu</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Well OK. This is lame, but for the record the problem was that I was putting it in the wrong directory. While there are a lot of libgst*.so files in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu the place it actually needed to be was in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0. Yeah, that cost me a day. LOL On 10/21/2019 4:43 PM, William wrote: > So I'm trying to write a plugin and seemed to have tripped over the starting > line. I have read in the docs that I should use gst-element-maker to create > a basic template for a plugin. So I give it a try: > > ./gst-element-maker myplugin382 basetransform > > So not only did that create the .h and .c files, it also creates the .so > library file gstmyplugin382.so. > Wow, cool. So now I only have to copy the gstmyplugin382.so into the > directory where all the other gst-plugins reside and GStreamer will > magically see recognize it. Excellent! And so I copied gstmyplugin382.so to > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu and ran gst-inspect-1.0. But no joy. It doesn't > work. > I have spent the day trying slight variations, searching the internet for > solutions, and trying out different suggestions. And still no joy. > Was this supposed to work? Am I missing a step? How is GStreamer supposed to > recognize plugins? > > > > -- > Sent from: <a href="http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/</a> > _______________________________________________ > gstreamer-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a></blockquote></div>