Naive workaround for #95

mopidy/core.py

@@ -1,7 +1,17 @@
 import logging
 import optparse
+import sys
 import time
 
+# Extract any non-GStreamer arguments, and leave the GStreamer arguments for
+# processing by GStreamer. This needs to be done before GStreamer is imported,
+# so that GStreamer doesn't hijack e.g. ``--help``.
+# NOTE This naive fix does not support values like ``bar`` in
+# ``--gst-foo bar``. Use equals to pass values, like ``--gst-foo=bar``.
+gstreamer_args = [arg for arg in sys.argv[1:] if arg.startswith('--gst')]
+mopidy_args = [arg for arg in sys.argv[1:] if not arg.startswith('--gst')]
+sys.argv[1:] = gstreamer_args
+
 from pykka.registry import ActorRegistry
 
 from mopidy import get_version, settings, OptionalDependencyError
@@ -45,7 +55,7 @@ def parse_options():
     parser.add_option('--list-settings',
         action='callback', callback=list_settings_optparse_callback,
         help='list current settings')
-    return parser.parse_args()[0]
+    return parser.parse_args(args=mopidy_args)[0]
 
 def setup_settings():
     get_or_create_folder('~/.mopidy/')