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unsatisfiablespirit
unsatisfiablespirit

Reputation: 63

No such element filesrc after installing Gstreamer

I'm new to Gstreamer. I installed Gstreamer and found that "filesrc" element is missing right after the installation (using gst-inspect-1.0). If I type in gst-inspect-1.0 filesrc, it returns "No such element or plugin"

My environment:

My original goal is camera capturing by OpenCV+Gstreamer, and my vs2019 project keeps returning "no element v4l2src". I finally found that even "filesrc" is not available, which means I already have problems BEFORE I build OpenCV together with Gstreamer.

I checked this installation guide too but no luck. Are there some additional steps to install the plugins?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1363

Answers (1)

unsatisfiablespirit
unsatisfiablespirit

Reputation: 63

Based on this post, I should delete the gstreamer "registry" to force it to kind of re-detect the available functions. This solution is for linux, not Windows 10. But I finally found the absolute path of that registry, fortunately:

C:\Users\{your user name}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\gstreamer-1.0\registry.x86_64.bin

What I did to get "filesrc" appears in the list and available:

1. Delete the registry file manually
2. Performed a clean re-install
3. Run "gst-inspect-1.0"

Hope my workaround helps someone who gets stuck in the same situation.

Upvotes: 2

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