[gst-devel] Using playbin2

[Michael Smith]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Jeffrey
Barish<jeff_barish at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Jeffrey Barish wrote:
>
>> My code works fine with playbin.  When I change to playbin2 (by changing
>> the parameter in the element_factory_make call), the code no longer plays
>> and I
>> get error messages on the bus.  The error message is
>>
>> <GstGError at 0x8ecc390>, 'gstplaybin2.c(1783): pad_added_cb
>> (): /GstPlayBin2:player'
>>
>> Can someone tell me what this error message means?  Is there something
>> that I am supposed to do to use playbin2 that I do not need to do with
>> playbin?
>>
>> This problem occurs with version 0.10.22.
>
> Even though playbin2 is in base plugins, I eliminated this error by
> installing gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, which provides input-selector.
> However, now GStreamer is terminating with a segmentation fault.

Yeah, older versions of playbin2 required input-selector, which is in
-bad. Newer versions make it optional; it'll be moved to -base before
playbin2 is officially declared 'stable'.

As for the crash - well, you'll have to tell us where it's crashing
for us to be able to help you. However, I'd strongly suggest upgrading
to the current version first, if you can.

Mike