[gst-devel] playing ogg problem

[laurent belmonte]

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 14:12 +0200, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> oggdemux uses SOMETIMES pads. You can't just connect oggdemux to
> vorbisdec, but have to wait until the new_pad signal of oggdemux is
> emitted and in a callback connect that pad to vorbisdec.
> 
1) but how can i know that this element use SOMETIMES pads, this other
element  don't use pads and this last one has ten pads ?!

2) when this signal occur ? can i dynamic link element while the
pipeline is playing ?


> If you had done error checking in your code, you might have figured that
> out yourself, because gst_element_link_many would have failed.
> 
error checking :
if( gst_element_link_many(.....) == FALSE) {
  g_error("error when linking many elements, but how i know where the error come from ??"); 
} else {
g_debug(" marvellous, it is working. how ? i don't know but it's work !");
}
> 
> 
Thanks,
LaurentB
> Benjamin
> 
> 
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, laurent belmonte wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am porting my program from gst-0.6 to gst-0.8 and i have a simple
> > problem.
> > I can't play ogg file. With gst-launch, it is just work fine but with my
> > code it doesn't.
> >
> >
> > gst-launch-0.8 filesrc location=toto.ogg ! oggdemux ! vorbisdec  !
> > audioconvert ! esdsink
> >
> > so if someone can look at my code and explain me why it doesn't, i will
> > be happy
> >
> > to compile :
> > gcc -c main.c `pkg-config --cflags gstreamer-0.8`
> > gcc -o test main.o `pkg-config --libs  gstreamer-0.8`
> >
> > and to launch :
> > ./test test.ogg
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> >
> > LaurentB
> >
> >
> 
>