[gst-devel] gst-launch questions

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hi,


> 1.  How do I use the cdparanoia plugin and gst-launch to read an
> arbitrary track from an audio CD?  The gst-launch man page says, "Using
> gst-inspect-0.7(1), it is possible to discover settings for cdparanoia
> that will tell it to rip individual tracks."  And gst-inspect cdparanoia
> says:

I seem to recall you can't from gst-launch specifically.  Hope someone
corrects me if you can.

> 2.  Why does vorbisenc seem picky about its input
> but lame does not?  For example, vorbisenc seems to require
> "audio/x-raw-int,width=16,endianness=4321,signed=TRUE,depth=16,rate=44100,channels=2"
> but lame seems to require only "audio-x-raw-int."

Looking at gst-inspect, both rate and channels are ranges.  The other
ones are set because that's what the encoder takes.
As for lame, I get a whole list of possible sample rates.  Are you using
a 0.6 version ?

> 3.  Where can I find a simple explanation of the output of gst-inspect
> <element>?  I have figured out what much of the information means but
> some of it has me confused.

There isn't one, but if you have specific things you want to ask, feel
free.

Thomas


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