[gst-devel] Avi decoder

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 02:48 -0800, StyveA wrote:

> I'm a newbie here and i'm reading the "Application Development Manual" which
> is really helpful.
> 
> But here is my problem : I would like to play an Avi video file.

Try

  gst-launch-0.10 -v playbin2 uri=file:///path/to/foo.avi

> I've seen an example in the manual for an ogg audio file, so i've started
> from here.
> But I can't find a working decoder for my avi file.. 
> Anyone can help me plz?

Hard to help if you don't say what format the video inside the AVI is
in... but just use playbin2 (or uridecodebin/decodebin2).

gst-ffmpeg provides video decoders for many common formats.

 Cheers
  -Tim