Hi, <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:41 AM, akaChella <<a href="mailto:durgas1987@gmail.com">durgas1987@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi all, I have 2 pipelines. One is to play the video file locally and the other is to play the video and stream the audio. I am constructing one of the pipeline at a time and is working fine. Now i want to destroy the pipeline whatever has been constructed previously (say pipeline 1) and want to create the other pipeline (pipeline 2) during run time. I have used gst_deinit() to destroy the pipeline. </blockquote><div> You should not call gst_deinit to destroy the pipeline, to destroy the pipeline call: gst_element_set_state (pipeline, GST_STATE_NULL); and then g_object_unref (pipeline); </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> and then initialised the gstreamer using gst_init() and later constructed the other pipeline. </blockquote><div> No need to call gst_init more than once. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> But everytime it says, it is unable to construct the source element. i.e, gst_element_factory_make () returns -1. Any idea on this issue??? </blockquote><div> Best regards, Katcipis </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> -- View this message in context: <a href="http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/How-to-destruct-a-pipeline-tp3921391p3921391.html" target="_blank">http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/How-to-destruct-a-pipeline-tp3921391p3921391.html</a> Sent from the GStreamer-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </blockquote></div>