capsfilter as an element?

[Olivier Crête]

On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 15:18 -0500, Stirling Westrup wrote:
> Is there any reason I shouldn't just link a capsfilter into a pipeline
> as a normal element, and then use g_object_set to set its caps?

capsfilter is a normal element, and it is perfectly fine to use it as
such. Just be careful about changing the value at run-time, as you can
cause not-negotiated errors since upstream renegotiation may or may not
work depending on what elements you have in your pipeline.

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Olivier Crête
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