[gst-devel] How to predict which properties will be live-changeable ?

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 20:11 +0200, Florent wrote:

> However, for other parameters like bitrate or filesrc locations,  the
> pipeline needs restarting. Is there any way to predict/detect if an
> element needs pipeline restarting for parameter changing ? I can of
> course use some hard-coded info like a static array defining
> properties that need restarting after value changes, but it could be
> better to embed this kind of info in the plugins themselves.
> 
> Are there any plans for this kind of extension for the properties
> object ? Maybe there already is something ? Should i systematically
> restart pipelines on value change (a bit sad for live processing
> though...) ?

Looks like you want this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571559

Cheers
 -Tim