Tracking time for which a pipeline has been in Playing state.

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 20:16 +0530, Yogesh Marwaha wrote:

Hi,

> I'm coding a transcoding application (not using encodebin).
> 
> Upto now I had been using following code to get time for which the pipeline 
> has been in Playing state (To show user information like xx minutes/seconds 
> the operation has run for or to calcutate averate speed and estimate remaining 
> time etc.): -

Maybe what you want is a progressreport element in your pipeline
(somewhere between decoder + encoder)?

This will post "progress" element messages on the bus.

e.g.:

gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=foo.flac ! decodebin2 !
progressreport ! fakesink

 Cheers
  -Tim