[gst-devel] A Couple of Questions

[Andy Wingo]

Hi Philip,

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 13:56 -0500, Philip Alldredge wrote:
> 1.) Is there any way for me to detect the number of streams 
> (audio, video, etc) a source has without playing it or is that just  
> the way it is?

Nope, you have to play it.

> 2.) I want to play 2 seperate parts of the same stream  
> at the same time.

Wellllllll, with the stock elements included in GStreamer, you have to
set up two pipelines. You could write your own caching element that
could output data on N independently seekable pads; would be tricky, but
easier in 0.9 I think.

Cheers,
-- 
Andy Wingo
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