gstreamer correct way to get ghost pad element by name

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Wed, 2016-12-07 at 10:46 +0000, art vanderhoff wrote:
> Using GST 1.11,
> 
> I have created a ghost pad and confirmed it is working by the following
> 
> gchar *ghost_pad_1_name = NULL;
> ghost_pad_1_name = "myGhostPad'
> ghost_pad_1 = gst_ghost_pad_new (ghost_pad_1_name, pad_src_1);
> 
> if(GST_PAD_DIRECTION(ghost_pad_1) == GST_PAD_SRC){
>     printf("Ghost is SRC -> correct\n"); // Correct
>     }  
> 
> printf("Ghost Pad Name = %s\n",GST_ELEMENT_NAME(ghost_pad_1)); // myGhostPad
> however trying to get the element by using the following returns NULL
> 
> GstElement *TestGhostPad = gst_bin_get_by_name (ghost_pad_1_name);
> if (!TestGhostPad){
>     printf("Ghost Pad is NULL\n"); // This is called
> }
> if (TestGhostPad){
>     printf("Ghost Pad is NOT NULL\n");
> }
> Am I using this function correctly? Is there another method to get the Ghost Pad by name.

(Ghost) pads are not elements, but pads. You can get the (ghost) pad
from the element it was added by name via gst_element_get_static_pad().

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Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · http://www.centricular.com
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