<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the explanation and links. <div> </div><div>I was trying this both on a tee and on an audiomixer element. So although I wrote my example with the tee element, maybe it was just failing on the audiomixer and I failed to notice that. </div><div> </div><div>Cheers</div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">2015-04-30 21:10 GMT+02:00 Tim Müller <<a href="mailto:tim@centricular.com" target="_blank">tim@centricular.com</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 10:21 +0200, Sérgio Agostinho wrote: Hi Sérgio, > Come on guys, somebody must have faced this problem before. Is it > possible to do what I've mentioned.? Yes, this should be possible, just like you do, simply pass the template and the name you want. Whether this actually works or not depends a bit on the element in question. In tee's case this seems to have been fixed somewhere after 1.2 so it only works in version 1.4 or later: <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/tree/plugins/elements/gsttee.c#n346" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/tree/plugins/elements/gsttee.c#n346</a> <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/commit/plugins/elements/gsttee.c?id=24a3102b2149663e1ba93c66b033ffb623832852" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/commit/plugins/elements/gsttee.c?id=24a3102b2149663e1ba93c66b033ffb623832852</a> Cheers -Tim <div><div> > > 2015-04-28 11:05 GMT+02:00 Sérgio Agostinho > <<a href="mailto:sergio.r.agostinho@gmail.com" target="_blank">sergio.r.agostinho@gmail.com</a>>: > Hi everyone, > > > Normally when you request a pad from a tee, you specify the > name of the template 'src_%u' and then a new pads gets created > with a name > > > src_0 > src_1 > src_2 > etc... > > > This time I was trying to specify the name of the pad myself, > i.e. I wanted the first request pad created to be named > 'src_1', the second one 'src_11', etc.... > > > Is this possible? If so, how do I achieve this? > > > I've listed below all my unsuccessful attempts so far: > > > 1 - > gst_element_get_request_pad(tee, "src_1"); > > > 2 - > tmpl = gst_element_class_get_pad_template > (GST_ELEMENT_GET_CLASS (tee), "src_%u"); > gst_element_request_pad(tee, tmpl, "src_1", NULL); > > > 3 - > tmpl_gen = gst_element_class_get_pad_template > (GST_ELEMENT_GET_CLASS (tee), "src_%u"); > caps = gst_pad_template_get_caps(tmpl_gen); > tmpl = > gst_pad_template_new(s,GST_PAD_TEMPLATE_DIRECTION(tmpl_gen), GST_PAD_TEMPLATE_PRESENCE(tmpl_gen), caps); > gst_element_request_pad(tee, tmpl, "src_1", NULL); > > > > > Cheers, > Sérgio > > </div></div>> _______________________________________________ > gstreamer-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">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> -- Tim Müller, Centricular Ltd - <a href="http://www.centricular.com" target="_blank">http://www.centricular.com</a> _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">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> </div></div>