Influencing playbin2/decodebin2 auto-plugging

[Tvrtko Ursulin]

On Monday 06 August 2012 16:12:23 Tim-Philipp Müller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I am seeing a weird interaction between using autoplug-select and vaapi.
> > The attached reproducer does not transition into playing state for me
> > unless I remove the line where I connect my message handler to
> > autoplug-select. Interesting thing is that my handler in this
> > configuration does not deviate from the default behaviour ie. it always
> > returns GST_AUTOPLUG_SELECT_TRY.
> > 
> > In the no VA-API setup, with use_vaapi set to False at the top of the
> > program, playback works fine even with the autoplug-select handler
> > installed.
> > 
> > Seems weird, any ideas?
> 
> I think playbin2 hooks up some of these signals as well
> ("autoplug-factories", "autoplug-select", "autoplug-continue"), so the
> default for playbin2 would be whatever playbin2 does there.

What? :) Sorry but I don't understand what you wrote. What do you think is 
broken/interacting badly and why?

Thanks,

Tvrtko