Why video/x-h264?

Tue Jun 14 18:02:47 UTC 2022

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/coreelements/capsfilter.html?gi-language=c#example-launch-line

On Jun 14 2022, at 7:46 pm, John McDermott via gstreamer-devel <gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I see that the element video/x-264 is often used in pipelines. For instance: `rtspsrc location = rtsp://192.168.0.61:8554/quality_h264 latency=0 ! rtph264depay ! h264parse ! video/x-h264,stream-format=avc ! queue` What is `video/x-264` for? The pipeline seems to work even without it. Is the element optional?
> Thanks
> John
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