getting no plugins with gstreamer-0.10.22

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 12:02 +0200, Dominik Schröder wrote:

Hi Dominik,

> I want to use gstreamer on a Marvell PXA168 SoC. Therefore I compiled
> gstreamer-0.10.22, gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.22, liboil-0.3.14 and
> the Marvell specific gstreamer plug ins to use the HW accelerated
> codec parts of the SoC. I installed everything to /usr/lib
> (--prefix=/usr) . The location of the plug ins
> is /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10.
> 
> Also I exported the GST_PLUGIN_PATH and the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. In my
> opinion, everything looks correct, but I don`t get any Plug ins listed
> with the tool gst-inspect. And I think, because of this, I can`t start
> gst-launch (no element “filesrc”). The attached command line listing
> shows my environment variables and my attempts to get the gstreamer
> working. 
> 
> Configure Flags for gstreamer: --disable-nls --disable-static
> --disable-gobject-cast-checks --enable-binary-registry
> --disable-loadsave --disable-trace

Two things you can try:

1) Run gst-inspect on a plugin .so directly (absolute path), to
   check if it works in principle. If it does, something is
   wrong with the plugin path or system path.

   gst-inspect-0.10 /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstcoreelements.so

2) Since you (wisely) seem to have kept the gstreamer debugging
   system enabled, you could check the GST_DEBUG log to see where
   it's looking for plugins and/or what it's trying to do:

   GST_DEBUG=*:7 gst-inspect-0.10 2>&1 | less -R

Cheers
 -Tim