[gst-devel] Problem connecting to ffmpeg encoders

[Sebastien Cote]

Hi Ronald and thanks for your quick answer.

I'd like to help out but I'm not sure where to start (I'm new to gstreamer). 
Should all the mimetypes of the encoders included in the ffmpeg plugin be listed
in the sink template or should the capabilities be created dynamically?

I'll have to look a bit more at the code of the ffmpeg plugin to better
understand how it works, but any tips would be appreciated.

Sebastien


Selon Ronald Bultje <rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net>:

> Hi Sebastien,
> 
> On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 22:28, Sebastien Cote wrote:
> > I'm playing with gstreamer and I was looking at how the plugins work. 
> Since
> > ffmpeg implements most of the codecs, I'd like to be able to connect to
> the
> > source pad of one of its encoders.  However, the mime type of the source
> pad
> > seems to always be unknown/unknown.  The format property doesn't seem to be
> set
> > either.  So how can the next filter know what type of media is coming out
> if the
> > encoder?? (h263, mpeg4, etc).
> 
> In short, you can't. Someone needs to fix the mimetypes for this to
> work. I'll see what I can do the next few days, but a lot of
> encoding/muxing plugins need love and we'd better concentrate on
> playback too, since Gnome wants a new 0.6.x release.
> 
> Anyway, see gstreamer/docs/random/mimetypes for a list of mimetypes per
> media type, you can implement a few things yourself too, if you feel
> like helping out. :).
> 
> Ronald
> 
> -- 
> Ronald Bultje <rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net>
> 
>