[gst-devel] Using fdsrc with a socket

[David Schleef]

On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 12:16:44PM +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 16:53 -0700, David Schleef wrote:
> > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:53:53PM +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > >  gst-launch fdsrc fd=1 ! fdsink fd=2
> > 
> > /me bets thomasvs meant 0 and 1
> 
> Actually, I didn't, because I tested it beforehand.  I'm completely
> baffled why both worked; I just tested to make sure.
> 
> so does 0 and 2 (which does make sense to me), and so does 1 and 1
> (UH ?)

Oh yeah, of course.  0, 1, and 2 are typically open to the *same*
device, which is going to be both readable and writeable.  Using
0 and 1 will make 'cat file | gst-launch fdsrc ! fdsink >someotherfile'
work, though.



dave...