Having spent many hours debugging gst-launch command lines, I think this would be very useful. The purpose you missed is that knowing how pads connect, assisting in caps negotiation, knowing the syntax of gst-launch properties would make gstreamer much easier to use for most people. Even if I intend to code a pipeline by hand, I always build it with gst-launch first. <div>
<br></div><div>Such a tool could also provide an interface for a live profiler and debugger which would be priceless for things like OpenCv development. <br><div><br></div><div>There was a reasonably good tool start, but it got deprecated when the XML descriptor got deprecated. <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gst-editor/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/gst-editor/</a> Seems to me the challenge is that such a tool would need to build gst-launch commands, and the syntax is a bit cryptic and unstructured. Another attempt at rendering live pipelines is here: <a href="https://launchpad.net/firtree/">https://launchpad.net/firtree/</a></div>
<div><div><br></div><div><b>Mike Mitchell</b></div></div></div>