[gst-devel] Playing remote file

[Stefan Kost]

hi,

Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> I play a sound file on the local machine using playbin2 by setting the uri 
> parameter to file://path.to.file.  Where can I get information about what 
> other network protocols can be used here?  I would like to be able to use 
> the uri parameter to specify a sound file on another machine on the same 
> LAN.  Both machines run Ubuntu.  I suppose that I could copy the file to a 
> temporary directory on the local machine and then play it from there, but I 
> suspect that there is a better way to do this.
>   
you can iterate the gstreamer registry and find all features that
provide GstURIHandler. Check what "gst-inspect-0.10 -u" is doing.

Stefan