[gst-devel] Linking elements with dynamic pads.

[Louis Bouchard]

I removed those from the callback function... to no avail.  The
pipeline still dies.

thanks,

Louis

On 11/15/05, Wim Taymans <wim at fluendo.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 12:07 -0500, Louis Bouchard wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to set up a pipeline to capture video from a dv camera.
> > The pipeline goes like this:
> >
> > dv1394src -> ffdemux_dv -> ffdec_dvvideo - > fakesink
> >
> > (the fakesink uses a handoff function to save the buffers)
> >
> > My problem is with ffdemux_dv:  since it's got dynamic source pads, I
> > need to link it after the first pipeline iteration, which I do.  But
> > it seems that linking the video source of the demuxer to the sink of
> > the decoder breaks the whole pipeline.  But the tests I run tells me
> > everything is connected properly.
> >
> > The flow of the program goes like this:
> >
> > 1 - connect dv1394src to the sink of ffdemux_dv w/ filtered caps -- works fine
> > 2 - connect  ffdec_dvvideo's source to the sink of fakesink w/
> > filtered caps -- works fine
> > 3 - start iterating -> ffdemux_dv calls it's callback function to
> > create the sources 'video_00' and 'audio_00'.
> > 4 - in the callback function connects ffdemux_dv's video_00 pad to the
> > sink of ffdec_dvvideo -- works fine...
> > 5 - the pipeline doesn't do anyting anymore and i don't know why.
> >
> <snip>
>
> >   gst_element_set_state (source, GST_STATE_READY);
> >   gst_element_set_state (decoder, GST_STATE_READY);
> >   gst_element_set_state (demuxer, GST_STATE_READY);
> >   gst_element_set_state (fakesink, GST_STATE_READY);
>
> This is in the callback function, setting the elements to READY stops
> all flow.
>
> Wim
>
> --
> Wim Taymans <wim at fluendo.com>
>
>