[gst-devel] alsasink: no such device "default"

[Jan Schmidt]

pritesh wrote:
> hi all,
> i copiled gstreamer-0.10.12 and gst-plugins-base-0.10.12 on
> davinci(armv5te). it has created alsasink plugin.
> but doing gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! alsasink fails
> message is : no such device "default"
> 
> how to set the device property of alsasink from commandline or from a
> program.
> what actually should the value of this device parameter be?

Not having a "default" device probably indicates that your ALSA install
is not correct. Nevertheless, you can try going directly to the hw
device with something like

gst-launch audiotestsrc ! alsasink device=hw:0

gst-launch audiotestsrc ! alsasink device=plughw:0 might also work

Regards,
Jan