title: gstreamer python bindings for windows
body: <p>I am looking into gstreamer as a means to choose a video device from a list to feed it to an opencv script.</p>
  <p>I absolutely do not understand how to use gstreamer with python in windows. I installed the <strong>Windows gstreamer 1.07 binaries</strong> from the <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/" rel="noreferrer">gstreamer official website</a>. However, I could not import the <code>pygst</code> and <code>gst</code> modules in python.</p>
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; import pygst
  
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File &quot;&lt;pyshell#0&gt;&quot;, line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  import pygst
  ImportError: No module named pygst
  &gt;&gt;&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  <p>I checked the gstreamer installation, and <strong>there seems to be no <code>pygst.py</code> provided.</strong> There is however a file named <code>gst-env</code> that contains paths for environnement variables (that were not added to the system variables on installation. I checked.</p>
  <p>Other questions on the same problem <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6907473/cannot-import-gst-in-python">here</a> and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14064611/issues-importing-gtstreamer-in-python?rq=1">here</a>, for example, do all use the <strong>winbuild</strong> versions of gstreamer. Why is that so?</p>
  <p>I am totally lost on this one.</p>
  <h2>Edit</h2>
  <p>Ok, I managed it using the SDK for Gstreamer 0.10 (in which there is a <code>pygst.py</code>), but is there not a way to use the Gstreamer 1.0 series, since 0.10 is &quot;end-of-life&quot;?</p>