commandline pipeline launched via gst-launch VS programmatic pipeline

[Icarus Alive]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Stefan Sauer <ensonic at hora-obscura.de> wrote:
> On 10/06/2011 07:16 PM, Icarus Alive wrote:
>> Are there are performance comparisons available for the 2 approaches,
>> where the same logical pipeline is created via commandline & launched
>> via gst-launch, versus a programmatically coded pipeline, all C code ?
> Please look at the gst_parse_launch docs. The main disadvantage is lack
> of flexibilty.
>> Or,

Okay, thanks.

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>> Is there any way that a command-line pipeline can be converted to it's
>> C-language pipeline, automagically (code-generation) ?
> That would be less useful. You are not converting pipeline 3 times a day.

Well, I was thinking more from the standpoint of someone who develops
a cold-feet dealing with gstreamer C-code (especially writing it from
scratch).
True, once you've got a functional pipeline, or mastered gstreamer 'C'
development  -- I doubt that such a tool would be very useful.