[gst-devel] Can application get the dynamic information inside the element

Michael Smith msmith at xiph.org
Thu Jan 22 03:18:15 CET 2009


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Chen, Weian <weian.chen at intel.com> wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> If the application wants to get the dynamic information inside an element
> (such as the file handle opened by filesrc in runtime), how to do?

The element may expose things via properties.

For your specific question: filesrc does expose the fd it's using (via
an 'fd' property), but it's almost certainly a bad idea to use that
for any purpose. Why do you want to know that?

Mike




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