[gst-devel] ffdec_aac cannot be auto plugged by decodebin2

[Michael Smith]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Prajnashi S <prajnashi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm writing glue layer to integrate gstreamer into android's media player
> service. When using playbin and decodebin2 to create pipeline automatically,
> I found ffdec_aac cannot be auto plugged. Then, I found in
> "gst-plugins-base/gst/playback/gstfactory.c", it said only rank larger than
> GST_RANK_MARGINAL can work. Unfortunately, ffdec_aac's rank is 0. Can anyone
> tell me why? (performance/statability)

ffdec_aac doesn't work very well (it can't decode many AAC streams,
and it can't report which things it _can_ decode, IIRC). faad
generally works ok, if you want a different aac decoder.

Mike