[gst-devel] State changes from PLAY -> READY -> PLAY only work with mad plugin?

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 19:56 +0000, Georg Sauthoff wrote:

> > You should probably just create a new pipeline in your case, or use
> > something like playbin2 which does all that internally for you.
> 
> Ok. Should I open a documentation improvement request in the bug tracker
> against
> 
> http://www.gstreamer.net/data/doc/gstreamer/head/manual/html/section-elements-states.html
> 
> ? I mean, the paragraph could mention, what state transitions are likely
> to fail with elements involving 'dynamic pads' (including an example
> pipeline).

You could file a documentation improvement request against the API docs
of gst_parse_launch() so we can add a warning there.

It's not that that state transitions are likely to fail in general for
these kinds of elements - it's just that gst_parse_launch()'s
behind-the-scenes magic only works once.

Cheers
  -Tim