How to create a pipeline from ready-made media profiles?

[Alexander Botero]

Hello,
The GNOME-desktop has a list of supported/installed media profiles and
audio formats.
I can see these in THE gconf-editor,  system -> gstreamer -> 0.10 -> audio
-> profiles:

Sample profiles:
FLAC: "audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! flacenc name=enc"
OGG:  "audio/x-raw-float,rate=44100,channels=2 ! vorbisenc name=enc
quality=0.5 ! oggmux"
MP3:  "audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lamemp3enc name=enc target=0
quality=6 ! xingmux ! id3v2mux"

I want to create a complete pipeline of these formats, and I want to build
it from separate elements (not from gst_parse_launch(...)).

Q: Is this right way to parse the profile string?

0) Split the string to two (2) parts. The parts are separated by first "!".

F.ex let's study the OGG-profile.

1) Create GstCaps from the capabilities string (the 1.st part).
   Create GstCapsfilter element and set "caps" on it.

  GstElement *filter = gst_element_factory_make("capsfilter", NULL);
  GstCaps *caps =
gst_caps_from_string("audio/x-raw-float,rate=44100,channels=2");
  g_object_set(G_OBJECT(filter), "caps", caps, NULL);
  gst_caps_unref(caps);

2) Create a GstBin from the profile's encoder/mux part.
  gchar *str = "vorbisenc name=enc quality=0.5 ! oggmux";

  GError *err = NULL;
  GstBin *bin = gst_parse_bin_from_description(str, TRUE, &err);

3) Create rest of the pipeline as usual.
  gst_bin_add_many(GST_BIN(pipe), ...);
  gst_element_link_many(source,...,audioconvert, audioresample, filter,
bin, filesink, NULL);

This approach seems to work pretty well. Have you a better approach?
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The gst_parse_launch(...) function seems to do this magick automatically.

For example this works fine:
const gchar *str = "pulsesrc"
             " ! queue"
             " ! audioconvert"
             " ! audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! flacenc name=enc"
             " ! filesink location=xxx");

GError *err = NULL;
GstElement *pipe = gst_parse_launch(str, &err);
...

Kindly
 Alexander
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