<DIV> </DIV> <DIV>By the way, I may not have been clear before.  What I want to do is to get the raw audio data from a decoder so that I can manipulate it with standard C++ code.  I don't want to have to hook the decoder up to another element.  Thanks. Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 07:12, Quan Nguyen wrote: > Thanks. Then my question is this. How do I read data > from a decoder's source pad? Do I have to create a > GstElement and connect it to the source pad of a > decoder? I don't want to create a GstElement to > accept data from the source pad of another element. I > just want to be able to read the data from an audio > decoder and perform some analysis on it with a C++ > function that I wrote. Use fakesink and connect to the handoff signal. Ronald -- Ronald Bultje <RBULTJE@RONALD.BITFREAK.NET> Linux Video/Multimedia developer </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21260/*http://photos.yahoo.com">New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing</a>