[gst-devel] newbie questions

[Akos Maroy]

Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Your manager controls the contained elements. So you can seek, swap inputs
> as you wish. So in order to play 5s-45s with 10s silence before, run a
> silence element for 5s, then seek in the other src to 5s and play it until
> 45s and then play a silence for another few s.
> 
> There's an element in the cupid source tree called assistent that helps
> the manager to do this.

thanks, I'll look at the sample.

BTW, is there more documentation on writing managers? the gstreamer
documentation page on the issue seems to be unfinished:
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/pwg/html/chapter-other-manager.html
(it talks of a sample, but there's no sample code there...)


Akos