[gst-devel] Regarding decodebin

Michael Smith msmith at xiph.org
Tue Jan 13 18:57:39 CET 2009


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Jyoti D <jyoti.d at allaboutif.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> My query is regarding usage of decodebin in the application program.
> I have been using decodebin and uridecodebin quite often while launching
> pipeline.
>
> But is it recommended to be used in application also?
> How much efficient would it be using in application?

It is very highly recommended - every major gstreamer-based player I
know of uses decodebin (or decodebin2, or uridecodebin). Doing it
otherwise would be a bad idea, generally.

There is no efficiency issue with doing this.

Mike




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