[gst-devel] Componentization

[Wim Taymans]

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> 
> Sorry for the confusion, Bastien and I went off-topic, and we were not 
> referring to libgstplay but to the gstreamer architecture. I agree that 
> this is not the role of libgstplay, that does not make sense. We are 
> asking for a way to allow a plugin to pass metadata up through the API 
> as a name/value pair list or perhaps XML. I do not know the details of 
> the event system, but maybe many plugins generate an on_load event that 
> has the metadata to accompany it.

The event system is only designed dor inter-plugin communication, not
app communication. For application communication I think you are looking
for signals (which could carry a GstProps) and/or gobject properties.

Wim