[gst-devel] appsrc and appsink elements

[Wim Taymans]

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 12:03 +0200, David SIORPAES wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to exchange buffers which are allocated and managed by an 
> application of mine to and from a GStreamer pipeline.
> 
> By reading the documentation it looks like the appsrc/appsink are the 
> solution for me, but I am also reading here 
> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/manual/html/section-data-spoof.html
> that
> 
> "New API is being developed at the moment to make data insertion and 
> extraction less painful for applications. It can be found as GstAppSrc 
> and GstAppSink in the gst-plugins-bad module. At the time of writing 
> (October 2007), this API is not quite stable and ready yet, even though 
> it may work fine for your purposes."
> 
> So, may I ask whether it is safe to use such elements or not ? Or are 
> there alternative solutions ?

The versionsof appsink/appsrc in the latest release of gst-plugins-bad
are full-featured and ready for consumption. See
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/examples/app/
for a whole bunch of examples of different use cases.

Wim
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David S.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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