Adding GStreamer Plugins
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Addons can add extra GStreamer plugins into Songbird. For things like demuxers and decoders, these will get used automatically - that's how you can add support for more formats to Songbird. This article describes what you'll need to do if you want to do this.
How Songbird finds GStreamer plugins
When the GStreamer media core starts up, it looks for plugins in the 'gst-plugins' directory in your songbird application directory. Additionally, it'll search for plugins in any addon that has a 'gst-plugins' subdirectory.
So, your addon should contain the standard install.rdf, and a gst-plugins directory containing all the GStreamer plugins you want to include. Your final addon directory tree will look like:
install.rdf gst-plugins/ gst-plugins/yourgstplugin.so
That's all there is to it! Now just zip that up into an XPI file, and then install it from the addons manager. After restarting, your gstreamer plugins will be available.
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