[Bug 698712] playbin: autoplug video decoder and sink based on caps features

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698712
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-base | git

--- Comment #49 from sreerenj <bsreerenj at gmail.com> 2013-04-29 09:45:34 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #48)
> (In reply to comment #47)
> 
> 
> playbin already has something more clever than the auto*sink instantiation. It
> choses, depending on the caps, the most optimal sink with the highest rank. It
> only falls back to auto*sink if it can't do anything more clever.


It seems that "gst-launch playbin uri=///" is creating an autovideosink by
default.(with out having any dec-sink-list patch) !!

> What advantage do we get from the full dec-sink list over the sparse one here?
> If we're looking at dec-sink combinations with 1 common caps features we don't
> need to look at the list at all and can only look at the elements list as of
> now and select the highest ranked decoder and the highest ranked sink that can
> handle the caps.

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