> 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 _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
