Gst_caps_new_simple fails

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Sun, 2019-01-20 at 16:20 +0100, Luca Bacci wrote:

Hi Luca,

> I want RGB frames and for that I use the "caps" property of appsink
> but
> 
> GstCaps *caps = gst_caps_new_simple("video/x-raw",
>                     "format", G_TYPE_STRING, "xRGB",
>                     NULL);
> 
> fails and returns NULL caps, why?

I don't know why this would fail. Is it actually this call that fails
or and returns NULL, or does something else fail later?

Did you call gst_init()? 

I might be missing something, but it doesn't make much sense at first
glance. 

Cheers
 Tim