[gst-devel] why does this pipeline not work?

[Michael Smith]

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:09 +0200, Thomas Holzmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to make a pipeline which plays my videos with decodebin. In the 
> shell this worked with gst-launch filesrc location=schritte.avi ! 
> decodebin ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink 
> 
> When I try to implement this in my application there is alway a problem 
> by linking the decodebin element with the ffmpegcolorspace element.
> I've created a pipeline, added the elements to it and linked it. I think 
> nothing else does gst-launch!?
> Does someone have an idea what I could have made wrong?

gst-launch handles dynamic pads. You'll need to do that too - decodebin
uses dynamic pads.

You should connect to the new-decoded-pad signal on decodebin, and then
link an appropriate (video, presumably) pad to the rest of your pipeline
there.

Mike