[Bug 747104] Windows adaptation remarks

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747104

--- Comment #14 from Harry <bugzilla.gnome.org at harrym.e4ward.com> ---
I have found out thru examples, that gst_filename_to_uri() requires g_free(),
which is not mentioned in the documentation.

I have previously naively done :

  g_object_set (playbin, "uri", gst_filename_to_uri(path, NULL), NULL);

But now found that I need to do in fact :

  gchar   *uri;
  uri = gst_filename_to_uri (path, NULL);
  if (uri == NULL)
    ?????;
  g_object_set (playbin, "uri", uri, NULL);
  g_free (uri);

I think this is beyond inelegant, even ugly. The ideal would be :

  g_object_set (playbin, "filesrc", path, NULL);

So I maintain that a "filesrc" parameter to playbin and similar would be much
more user-friendly.

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