[gst-devel] How to include audio file in compiled code?

[Stefan Kost]

On 09.08.2010 16:12, Ole.Kirkeby at nokia.com wrote:
> This is probably not so much related to GStreamer but more about how
> to link resources into projects. I have a .wav file used as an
> alertsound in a Qt project, and I want to include it with the
> executable so that I don’t have to distribute it separately. There is
> a mechanism for doing this in the Qt Resource System, with an alias
> tag in the file attribute, but it doesn’t work, presumably because
> GStreamer bypasses the Qt framework when it sees filesrc in
> gst_parse_launch. More specifically, the code
> pipeline = gst_parse_launch("filesrc location=alertsound1.wav !
> wavparse ! autoaudiosink", &error);
> always causes the file alertsound1.wav to be read from the working
> directory regardless of which alias I have set up for it.
Filesrc always reads from the filesystem. If you use fdsrc you could use
a pipe and cat the file from the ressource into it. If you can easily
access the binary data from the ressource, you might be able to push
this into appsrc and use that as a starting point of your pipe.

Stefan
> I also tried fdsrc instead of filesrc but I couldn’t make that work
> either.
> ole
>
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