<div dir="ltr">As a followup on what Nirbheek said, this might be helpful:  

<a href="http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/msvc-build-can-t-find-elements-in-playback-plugin-td4691649.html#a4691668">http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/msvc-build-can-t-find-elements-in-playback-plugin-td4691649.html#a4691668</a><div><br></div><div>Basically you need to clear the plugin cache whenever you go between mingw and msvc builds.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:36 AM Nirbheek Chauhan <<a href="mailto:nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com">nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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 ?<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:00 PM Michael Gouveia <<a href="mailto:mggunman@hotmail.com" target="_blank">mggunman@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">




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<p dir="auto">So, I'm new to GStreamer and I've taken the safe route by downloading the pre-built binaries from
<a href="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/</a> 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.</p>
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<p dir="auto">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.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I might be missing an environment variable or path. These are my current system variables, I've set: </p>
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<p dir="auto">My current PATH, I've set:</p>
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<p dir="auto">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.</p>
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<p dir="auto">System Info: </p>
<p dir="auto">Windows 10 Pro 64-bit </p>
<p dir="auto">Intel i5-5300U </p>
<p dir="auto">8GB Ram</p>
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