[gst-devel] URI managing

[Benjamin Otte]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Ronald Bultje wrote:

> Benjamin, what should happen if >1 plugin register the same URI type?
> This is definately a risk if we start implementing things like GnomeVFS
> URI mapping etc. Will we use the element's priority to find the
> best-suited one?
>
Yeah.
Currently gst_element_make_from_uri gets a list of all elements supporting
a given URI, then sorts them by rank and uses the best one that accepts
the given URL (as _set_uri may return FALSE, in which case the next is
tried.)

Benjamin