> I have a GStreamer-based application that I maintain on OpenWrt. The
> recent OpenWrt GStreamer packages have been giving me trouble. I have
> been getting the following error message:
> 
> GStreamer-WARNING **: External plugin loader failed. This most likely
> means that the plugin loader helper binary was not found or could not
> be run.
> 
> Manually installing gst-plugin-scanner from the gstreamer build at
> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10 fixes the problem.
> 
> I build a very minimal GStreamer with only a few plugins. I think that
> if any plugins are installed, then gst-plugin-scanner should also be
> installed. Does anyone have an opinion on this? If we agree that this
> is a bug, then I could submit a fix to Trac.

It seems I was premature with my conclusion. GStreamer happily falls
back on another technique if gst-plugin-scanner is not available. The
trouble with my application was a missing GStreamer plugin, not a missing
gst-plugin-scanner.

-- 
Mike

:wq
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