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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:46 am    Post subject: gstreamer not registering any plugins Reply with quote

I should preface this post by admitting that i have dabbled with some breakmygentoo ebuilds recently, which may have contributed to my problem.

When trying to upgrade to the most recent gstreamer and rhythmbox (0.8x), i have managed somehow to break my gst installation. Everytime i run (and re-run) gst-register, it says:

Code:
rebuilding global_registry (/usr/local/var/cache/gstreamer-0.8/registry.xml)
rebuilding user_registry (/root/.gstreamer-0.8/registry.xml)
loaded 0 plugins with 0 features


Running gstreamer-properties naturally is useless because there are no sinks to play through. I have tried re-emerging and unmerging and re-emerging every gst related package, with no progress.

I have no idea what would be causing this, all the 0.8x gst packages compile and install perfectly well, but gstreamer just cannot register any of it's components. There must be a simple fix for this, but I lack the knowledge to find one.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You running gst-register-0.8 for .8?
It should build /var/lib/cache/gstreamer-0.8/registry.xml and all libs should be in /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8 subdir.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Like I said, all the gstreamer ebuilds appear to build perfectly. The /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8 dir is full of files.
The /var/lib/cache/gstreamer-0.8/registry.xml is empty and the /root/.gstreamer-0.8/registry.xml file only contains the following:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<GST-PluginRegistry>
<gst-plugin-paths>
</gst-plugin-paths>
</GST-PluginRegistry>

There must be something causing gst-register-0.8 to look in the wrong dir (not /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8) and thus finding no plugins. Is it as simple as changing a file to tell it to look somewhere else?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm.. I seem to have fixed it. Not sure exactly what changed this time.

I deleted both the /var/cache/gstreamer-0.8 dir and the /root/.gstreamer-0.8 dir and then reinstalled all the gst* packages.

This time, it installed the registry.xml file to /usr/local/var/cache/gstreamer-0.8. It also contains a line reading:
Code:
<path>/usr/local/lib/gstreamer-0.8</path>

I just did a
Code:
ln -s /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8 /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-0.8

A gst-register-0.8 now registers all the components as expected now.

Strange...
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PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2004 1:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm having the same problems you did. I'll see if I can follow your solution; if I can I'll post back exactly what I did.
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PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2004 12:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

greywolf wrote:
This time, it installed the registry.xml file to /usr/local/var/cache/gstreamer-0.8.
How did you install the plugins to /usr/local/....... ? did you copy it or did you modify the ebuild?

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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've got the same problem here;

Code:
miklid@manta miklid $ gst-register-0.8
trying to load global_registry
rebuilding user_registry (/home/miklid/.gstreamer-0.8/registry.xml)
loaded 0 plugins with 0 features


Ideas anyone??
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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 10:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got the same problem, tried a lot of things, but nothing seems to work, gst-register-0.8 --gst-plugin-path=/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8 should work I'd hope, but no success. :(
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PostPosted: Fri May 21, 2004 7:53 pm    Post subject: Same problem as the one noted here? Reply with quote

anyone use reiser4?

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=175794
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