<div dir="ltr">Did the `ninja install` command succeed? If you're running as a non-root user, you probably need to run `sudo ninja install`, since it will attempt to place files in a system directory that normal users don't have write access to.</div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 4:46 AM peter12 <<a href="mailto:mikelblaz6@gmail.com">mikelblaz6@gmail.com</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">I manage to have installed and compiled the plugin VA-API in GStreamer 1.14. However, I usually use gstremaer 1.18, so I would like to compile to use in that version. <a href="https://github.com/GStreamer/gst-build" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/GStreamer/gst-build</a> Therefore, I download and unzip gstreamer-vaapi-1.18.0 from this source (<a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/multimedia/gstreamer10-vaapi.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/multimedia/gstreamer10-vaapi.html</a>), and following the instrauctions I build it. mkdir build && cd build && meson --prefix=/usr \ -Dbuildtype=release \ -Dpackage-origin=<a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/</a> && ninja ninja install However, when I try to inspect if the elements are installed: $ gst-inspect-1.0 vaapi No such element or plugin 'vaapi' I have to say that i am new with GStreamer and in the ubuntu enviroment. What can I do? -- 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> </blockquote></div>