Caps is empty - can anyone explain why?

[Graham Leggett]

On 06 Sep 2015, at 11:45 AM, Sebastian Dröge <sebastian at centricular.com> wrote:

> While the template caps are certainly compatible, maybe one of the pads
> is returning EMPTY caps in the CAPS query, which is done during
> linking.
> 
> Can you provide a full debug log with GST_DEBUG=6 from the time
> gst_pad_link() is called to the lines you pasted above? That will tell
> the exact caps it is checking for compatibility.

What I eventually did was go back to the drawing board and recreate the element based on the videoencoder template. This one initialises itself correctly.

Regards,
Graham
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