diff --git a/kivy/tools/packaging/osx/kivy.sh b/kivy/tools/packaging/osx/kivy.sh
index fee216fee..b83e99fa9 100755
--- a/kivy/tools/packaging/osx/kivy.sh
+++ b/kivy/tools/packaging/osx/kivy.sh
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ export PYTHONPATH=${SCRIPT_PATH}/kivy:${SCRIPT_PATH}/lib/sitepackages:$PYTHONPAT
 export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=${SCRIPT_PATH}/lib:$DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH
 export LD_PRELOAD_PATH=${SCRIPT_PATH}/lib:$LD_PRELOAD_PATH
 export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=${SCRIPT_PATH}/lib/gst-plugins:$GST_PLUGIN_PATH
+export GST_PLUGIN_SCANNER=${SCRIPT_PATH}/lib/bin/gst-plugin-scanner
+export GST_REGISTRY_FORK="no"
 
 # It has to be -S or pygame's egg will do some funny site magic and break eventually
 # That'd mean however that other libraries can't be found anymore. So if the user has
diff --git a/kivy/tools/packaging/pyinstaller_hooks/rt-hook-kivy.py b/kivy/tools/packaging/pyinstaller_hooks/rt-hook-kivy.py
index 1b50685e5..06b062b60 100644
--- a/kivy/tools/packaging/pyinstaller_hooks/rt-hook-kivy.py
+++ b/kivy/tools/packaging/pyinstaller_hooks/rt-hook-kivy.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from os.path import join, dirname
-from os import environ, chdir
+from os import environ, chdir, putenv
 import sys
 
 root = 'kivy_install'
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ sys.path += [join(root, '_libs')]
 if sys.platform == 'darwin':
     sitepackages = join(root, '..', 'sitepackages')
     sys.path += [sitepackages, join(sitepackages, 'gst-0.10')]
+    putenv('GST_REGISTRY_FORK', 'no')
 
 environ['GST_PLUGIN_PATH'] = join(root, '..', 'gst-plugins')
 environ['KIVY_DATA_DIR'] = join(root, 'data')