Auto plugging的核心问题是如何使用media type作为一种动态和可拓展的识别stream的方式,在之前的文章中有提到pad的capabilities是elements交互协商的一种机制,一个capability是一种media type和一系列properties的组合。
Auto plugging在具体是线上依赖于media type detection,GStreamer的pipeline自带的typefinding机制负责实现这部分功能,当stream进入到pipeline中插件,只要stream type是未知的,就会一直读data。
#include <gst/gst.h>
[.. my_bus_callback goes here ..]
static gboolean
idle_exit_loop (gpointer data)
{
g_main_loop_quit ((GMainLoop *) data);
/* once */
return FALSE;
}
static void
cb_typefound (GstElement *typefind,
guint probability,
GstCaps *caps,
gpointer data)
{
GMainLoop *loop = data;
gchar *type;
type = gst_caps_to_string (caps);
g_print ("Media type %s found, probability %d%%\n", type, probability);
/*
if (strcmp(type, "video/x-h264") == 0) {
// link element
gst_element_link_many(typefind, data->decoder, NULL);
}
*/
g_free (type);
/* since we connect to a signal in the pipeline thread context, we need
* to set an idle handler to exit the main loop in the mainloop context.
* Normally, your app should not need to worry about such things. */
g_idle_add (idle_exit_loop, loop);
}
gint
main (gint argc,
gchar *argv[])
{
GMainLoop *loop;
GstElement *pipeline, *filesrc, *typefind, *fakesink;
GstBus *bus;
/* init GStreamer */
gst_init (&argc, &argv);
loop = g_main_loop_new (NULL, FALSE);
/* check args */
if (argc != 2) {
g_print ("Usage: %s <filename>\n", argv[0]);
return -1;
}
/* create a new pipeline to hold the elements */
pipeline = gst_pipeline_new ("pipe");
bus = gst_pipeline_get_bus (GST_PIPELINE (pipeline));
gst_bus_add_watch (bus, my_bus_callback, NULL);
gst_object_unref (bus);
/* create file source and typefind element */
filesrc = gst_element_factory_make ("filesrc", "source");
g_object_set (G_OBJECT (filesrc), "location", argv[1], NULL);
typefind = gst_element_factory_make ("typefind", "typefinder");
g_signal_connect (typefind, "have-type", G_CALLBACK (cb_typefound), loop);
fakesink = gst_element_factory_make ("fakesink", "sink");
/* setup */
gst_bin_add_many (GST_BIN (pipeline), filesrc, typefind, fakesink, NULL);
gst_element_link_many (filesrc, typefind, fakesink, NULL);
gst_element_set_state (GST_ELEMENT (pipeline), GST_STATE_PLAYING);
g_main_loop_run (loop);
/* unset */
gst_element_set_state (GST_ELEMENT (pipeline), GST_STATE_NULL);
gst_object_unref (GST_OBJECT (pipeline));
return 0;
}