No such element or plugin 'textoverlay'

Question

I have build the gst-build in my ubuntu to work with the Gstreamer 1.18.1 version.

meson build
ninja -C build
ninja -C build devenv

The problem is that I can't get the textoverlay plugin and I don't know why.

gst-inspect-1.0 textoverlay
No such element or plugin 'textoverlay' 

So, how could I get that plugin?

Answer 1

Normally, the Textoverlay plugin is shipped with gst-plugins-base. You can install the missing plugin by:

/usr/libexec/gst-install-plugins-helper textoverlay

or

/usr/lib/gst-install-plugins-helper textoverlay