I believe that this was discussed last week. Search the recent emails. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Jim <<a href="mailto:restlessmindsstudio@gmail.com" target="_blank">restlessmindsstudio@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Does anyone else know how to set the rank in code? Does this require modifying the plugin source code? Thanks, Jim -----Original Message----- From: gstreamer-devel-bounces+restlessmindsstudio=<a href="mailto:gmail.com@lists.freedesktop.org">gmail.com@lists.freedesktop.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel-bounces%2Brestlessmindsstudio">gstreamer-devel-bounces+restlessmindsstudio</a>=gmail.com@lists.freedesk <a href="http://top.org" target="_blank">top.org</a>] On Behalf Of David Schleef Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 1:41 PM To: Discussion of the development of and with GStreamer Subject: Re: Prioritize hardware decoder for playbin2 On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 09:59:00PM -0700, Jim wrote: > I've written a C program using the 0.10.36 version of GStreamer. I'm > using > playbin2 in my pipeline to play MPEG2-TS files. This works fine except > that > playbin2 is not using the hardware decoder plugin that is available. I > know there is the concept of plugins having ranks so I'm wondering how > to prioritize this decoder over others. Your hardware decoder's rank should be set appropriately, i.e., it should have rank GST_RANK_PRIMARY+1 or so. David _______________________________________________ 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> _______________________________________________ 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>