[gst-devel] autoplug(?) ac3dec/mad bug

[Wim Taymans]

On 18 Aug 2001 05:32:49 -0400, David I. Lehn wrote:
> I was trying to play a vob with cvs code and gstmediaplay.  It decides
> to hook up "mad" instead of "ac3dec" for the audio!  This works fine in
> 0.2.1 so something has changed since then.

pure luck :) The autoplugger we use is a static one. mpeg2parse can
either output mp3 or ac3, the autoplugger picks one (without even
looking at the stream), if you're lucky it has guessed it right and you
have sound.

A dynamic autoplugger (one with knowledge of the data) can solve this
problem.
 
Wim