Problem playing video file using gstreamer

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 00:36 -0800, Anirban Chatterjee wrote:
> Hi,
>      i am new in gstreamer. I am issuing the command "gst-launch -v filesrc
> location=/home/anirbanc/bird.avi ! ximagesrc"  I am getting the following
> error:
> 
> WARNING: erroneous pipeline: could not link filesrc0 to ximagesrc0
> anirbanc-2.desktop% gst-launch -v filesrc location=/home/anirbanc/bird.avi !
> ximagesink

Try:

 gst-launch-0.10 playbin2 uri=file:///home/anirbanc/bird.avi

or

 gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=file:///home/anirbanc/bird.avi

(depending which major version you use).

Cheers 
-Tim