creating custom element for encryption

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 09:06 -0400, badea_ion at gmx.fr wrote:

Hi,

> I want to write a custom element for encrypting the stream which is
> going to be linked to a tcpserversink and a similar one, to grab data
> from tcpclientsrc and decrypt it. I derived it from GstElement. The
> problem is I don't know what capabilities to set up for it. I would
> like to define my own capabilities like "application/encrypted" but
> which to be recognized by tcpclientsrc and tcpserversink but I don't
> know how to do that without having to recompile the gst-plugins-base
> or other gstreamer component.

The tcp* elements don't "recognize" or care about the format, just
require some format to be set.

Cheers
 -Tim