Influencing playbin2/decodebin2 auto-plugging

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 17:01 +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:

> I see now that when my autoplug-select handler is installed, playbin2's one is 
> not called at all. And it actually looks like a non-trivial code there. 
> 
> Solvable? I really liked this approach.. if this is a dead end I will have to 
> attempt your other suggestion of iterating over the plugin registry and modify 
> ranks. Hopefully it is doable from Python. 
> 
> Do you perhaps have any pointers (examples) to start me up there?

Should be doable from python.

Or perhaps the "autoplug-sort" signal would be enough for your purposes?
I don't think playbin2 uses that (yet).

Cheers
 -Tim