[gst-devel] A Couple of Questions

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 10:53 +0200, Andy Wingo wrote:
> 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.

(just to make clear, "playing it" doesn't necessarily mean "showing
video and making audio hearable".  You can just as well play it with
fake elements, but the data needs to be decoded up to the point where
all outputs have data)

Thomas


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