<div dir="ltr">You can use an environment variable GST_PLUGIN_PATH to point to any folders that contain relevant plugins.<div><br></div><div>One caveat for Windows using 1.16:  If you have switched between the mingw and msvc builds, you will want to clear the cache:  ~/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/gstreamer-1.0</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 8:50 AM yurky via gstreamer-devel <<a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</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"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">GREETINGS,</font><div style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I am trying to build/run the Milestone VPS Toolkit VP Service project that uses GStreamer v1.16.2.  It includes projects for a set of pipeline elements (e.g. </font><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><font color="#303436">vpspasstru).  When running the </font></span><font color="#303436" face="Open Sans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">gst_element_factory_make() call can't find the element. </span></font></div><div><font color="#303436" face="Open Sans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#303436" face="Open Sans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">So the question is how does GStreamer find 3rd party library elements? Do they have to be registered in GStreamer?  Below the path </span></font><a href="http://localhost:5000/gstreamer/pipelines/vpspasstru" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line:none;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box" target="_blank"><font color="#023852">/gstreamer/pipelines is not in the project nor in the gstreamer installation. Any guidance would be appreciated</font></a>...</div><div><font color="#303436" face="Open Sans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#303436" face="Open Sans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"> Here is the error:</span></font></div><div><font color="#303436" face="Open Sans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><font color="#023852"><span dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.7;padding:5px;text-align:inherit"><font color="#303436">2021-11-05 10:51:55.350-04:00 INFO - Request starting HTTP/1.1 GET </font></span><a href="http://localhost:5000/gstreamer/pipelines/vpspasstru" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><font color="#023852">http://localhost:5000/gstreamer/pipelines/vpspasstru</font></a></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><font color="#023852"><span dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.7;padding:5px;text-align:inherit"><font color="#303436">0:00:06.721568000 25840 000002063AC53090 WARN   GST_ELEMENT_FACTORY gstelementfactory.c:467:gst_element_factory_make: no such element factory "vpspasstru"!</font></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><font color="#023852"><span dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.7;padding:5px;text-align:inherit"><font color="#303436">0:00:06.723402000 25840 000002063AC53090 ERROR        default vps2gstreamer.cpp:98:Vps2GStreamer::SetupGStreamer: Element from 3rd party partner pipeline could not be created.</font></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><font color="#023852"><span dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.7;padding:5px;text-align:inherit"><font color="#303436"> </font></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><font color="#023852"><span dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.7;padding:5px;text-align:inherit"><font color="#303436">2021-11-05 10:51:55.350-04:00 INFO - Request finished in 5.5698ms 404</font></span></font></p></div><div></div></font>
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