Usefulness of graphical pipeline editors and/or visualizers

[Mike Mitchell]

Having spent many hours debugging gst-launch command lines, I think this
would be very useful.  The purpose you missed is that knowing how pads
connect, assisting in caps negotiation, knowing the syntax of gst-launch
properties would make gstreamer much easier to use for most people. Even if
I intend to code a pipeline by hand, I always build it with gst-launch
first.

Such a tool could also provide an interface for a live profiler and
debugger which would be priceless for things like OpenCv development.

There was a reasonably good tool start, but it got deprecated when the XML
descriptor got deprecated. http://code.google.com/p/gst-editor/ Seems to me
the challenge is that such a tool would need to build gst-launch commands,
and the syntax is a bit cryptic and unstructured.  Another attempt at
rendering live pipelines is here: https://launchpad.net/firtree/

*Mike Mitchell*
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