Ecplicitly prerolling pipelines..

[Tim Müller]

On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 11:35 +0800, Rob Kramer wrote:

Hi Rob,

> I'm trying to preroll a pipeline without video output, and some time 
> later create a xv videosink for it and start playing. The idea is to 
> have a few cached prerolled pipelines lying around that can be started 
> instantly, without prerolling delay.
> 
> When I preroll to paused state with a fake videosink attached and then 
> assign a new "video-sink" property to the playbin (with the real 
> videosink), the pipeline does not seem to change the sink at all, i.e. 
> it retains the fakesink. Is changing "video-sink" on the fly supported 
> functionality?

I don't think this is really supported. What's the bigger picture here?
What are you trying to do? There might be better approaches.

Cheers
 -Tim

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