Gst.init() has no async variant. If the plugin registry cache is stale
(e.g. right after a system update), it synchronously rescans every
plugin, spawning gst-plugin-scanner per plugin and probing hardware
for codecs. Since gnome-shell is single-threaded and is the
compositor, that can freeze the whole screen for several seconds,
same as the blocking UPower proxy lookup fixed earlier.
Set GST_REGISTRY_UPDATE=no when a cache already exists so Gst.init()
trusts it and returns immediately, then refresh the cache in a
throwaway subprocess afterward so it doesn't go stale forever.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
QuintaandClaude Sonnet 5
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