[gst-devel] Problems with running pipelines

[Ronald Bultje]

Hey,

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 23:24, Mathrick wrote:
> W liście z czw, 28-08-2003, godz. 23:26, Ronald Bultje pisze: 
> > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 22:32, Mathrick wrote:
> > > filesrc location="test.mpg" ! spider ! videosink spider0.src%d!esdsink
> > 
> > Add spaces around the exclamation mark and before the dot:
> > 
> > spider0 .src%d ! esdsink
> > 
> Well, this didn't help much :(
> 
> $gst-launch filesrc location="test.mpg" ! spider ! videosink  spider0
> .src%d ! esdsink
> 
> INFO ( 8645: 0) Initializing GStreamer Core Library version 0.6.2
> INFO ( 8645: 0) CPU features: (c1c3fbff) MMX SSE 3DNOW MMXEXT
> INFO ( 8645: 0) registry: loaded global_registry in 0.234669 seconds
>           (/var/lib/gstreamer/0.6/registry.xml)
> error: syntax error, unexpected IDENTIFIER, expecting '('
> ERROR: pipeline could not be constructed: Invalid syntax

Oh, you need to name pads. Autonaming doesn't work. So use src_1 (being
the second pad; note the underscore!), not src%d.

> > Sorry for the sucky documentation right now. We'll fix that before going
> > to 0.8.0, I suppose. We're working on somewhat technical issues right
> > now, I guess documentation is lagging a bit there. :-(.
> Just marking some sections as 'outdated' will help a lot w/ getting the
> correct picture, and it shouldn't take too much time. Right now at least
> autoplugger is sheduled for deletion, right? As an excercise I can try
> grepping CVS/changelog/devel-list and catching the most outdated parts,
> but I don't really know if I will have enough time. It would be very
> nice if you could give me some outline (or link to) of current CVS
> structure.

The autoplugger element, yes. Spider isn't, of course. I can try that
later on, please mark this on bugzilla. We lose track of everything if
we don't...

Ronald

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Ronald Bultje <rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net>