[gst-devel] RFC: dynamic ranks

[Ronald Bultje]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 14:19, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> guint (* get_dynamic_rank) (void);
[..]
> examples:
> esdsink would return GST_RANK_NONE if esd wasn't running. Xvideosink would
> return GST_RANK_NONE if the X server had no xv support. v4l would return
> GST_RANK_NONE if the kernel didn't have v4l compiled in or there was no
> video capture card.

(FYI) currently, v4l<plugin> refuses to go anything but NULL if there's
no video device (or no v4l support). I'm pretty happy with that
behaviour right now. Would that work for esd, xv, etc?

Ronald

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Ronald Bultje <rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net>
Linux Video/Multimedia developer