g_option_context_parse with -verbose or -messages

[Tim Müller]

On Wed, 2016-07-20 at 11:09 -0700, ht techdev wrote:

Hi,

> Passing –verbose or –messages as cli arguments to an app, which uses
> g_option_context_parse to parse arguments, i.e.,
> …
>     if (!g_option_context_parse(ctx, &argc, &argv, &err)) {
>          g_printerr("Failed to initialize: %s\n", err->message);
>          g_error_free(err);
>          return 1;
>     }
> …
> Generates the following error:
> Failed to initialize: Unknown option –messages
> (Similar thing with –v or –m)
> --gst-debug or--gst-plugin-path are fine, though.
> Any thoughts?

--gst-debug and --gst-plugin-path are options that are handled by
GStreamer, --verbose or --messages are not options that GStreamer
handles, your app will have to add/implement those (as gst-launch
does).

Cheers
-Tim
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Tim Müller, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com