It is an extremely common mistake on Windows to have incorrect PATH
values when loading a plugin, and the error from g_module_error()
(which just calls FormatMessageW()) is very confusing in this case:
The specified module could not be found.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/system-error-codes--0-499-#ERROR_MOD_NOT_FOUND
It implies the plugin itself could not be found. The actual issue is
that a DLL dependency could not be found. We need to detect this case
and print a more useful error message.
We should still print the error fetched from FormatMessage() so that
people are able to google for it.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1540>
Dynamically registered elements (hardware element in most cases)
may or may not be available on a system and properties may be different
per system.
This new API will make documentation skipping possible in programmable way.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1360>
This takes a plain message string and not a format string, and as a
result doesn't have to be passed through vasprintf() and lead to further
unnecessary allocations. It can also contain literal `%` because of
that.
The new function is mostly useful for bindings that would have to pass a
full string to GStreamer anyway and would do formatting themselves with
language-specific functionality.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1356>
The failure conditions can be overidden by subclasses, and a boolean
return value is provided to the caller whether adding/removing the child
element has actually worked. The caller can then handle this
accordingly but flooding stderr with this is not very useful.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1320>
Also refactor various internals of the monitor code:
- Don't allow starting twice but just return directly when starting a
second time.
- Don't end up in an inconsistent state if call start() a second time
while the monitor is starting up.
- Remove complicated cookie code: it was not possible to add/remove
filters while the monitor was started anyway so this was only useful
in the very small time-window while starting the monitor or while
getting the devices. Instead disallow adding/removing filters while
the monitor is starting, and when getting devices work on a snapshot
of providers/filters.
Fixes https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/issues/667
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1189>
Introduces a `libraries` variable that contains all libraries in a
list with the following format:
``` meson
libraries = [
[pkg_name, {
'lib': library_object
'gir': [ {full gir definition in a dict } ]
],
....
]
```
It therefore refactors the way we build the gir so that we can reuse the
same information to build them against 'gstreamer-full' in gst-build
when linking statically
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1093>
In an embedded system where all services run as seperate users it is
useful to have the gstreamer registry readable by all so it can be
re-used, in similar manner as a host system where one user have seperate
applications running but all share same registry.
To make this possible introducing GST_REGISTRY_MODE for adjusting the
changing mode of the registry binary when finishing up with the
temporary file (which has restricted access).
Fixes: #692
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/825>