Re: gstreamer not playing nice with gconf?

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 17:18 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I'm having troubles with GConf and gstreamer on my Poky/Yocto system.
> 
> On my desktop, gstreamer has installed some proper defaults:
>    % gconftool-2 -R /system//gstreamer
>    /system/gstreamer/0.10:
>      /system/gstreamer/0.10/audio:
>        /system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/profiles:
>          /system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/profiles/aac:
>            extension = m4a
>            name = CD Quality, AAC
>            active = true
>            ...
>      /system/gstreamer/0.10/default:
>        musicaudiosink_description = Default
>        videosink = autovideosink
>        visualization = autoaudiosink
>        audiosink = autoaudiosink
>        musicaudiosink = autoaudiosink
>        chataudiosink_description = Default
>        audiosrc_description = Default
>        audiosink_description = Default
>        chataudiosink = autoaudiosink
>        audiosrc = alsasrc
>        videosrc = v4l2src
> 
> However, on my Poky/Yocto system, I don't get any of this:
>    # gconftool-2 -R /system//gstreamer
>    #
> (in other words, it's not there)
> 
> I can see that /etc/gconf/schemas/gstreamer-0.10.schemas was installed,
> but it doesn't seem to be processed.  Other schemas in that directory
> are processed when the gconfd starts up.
> 
> Am I missing something in how this works?  I'm trying to run a GNome
> application (cheese) which needs to get at the gstreamer videosink
> default, but it's not available which causes it to fail.
> 
> Ideas?

Missing gconf postinstall for gstreamer? I'm just guessing though...

Cheers,

Richard