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Descriptions — Provides human-readable descriptions for caps/codecs and encoder, decoder, URI source and URI sink elements

Includes

#include <gst/pbutils/descriptions.h>

Description

The above functions provide human-readable strings for media formats and decoder/demuxer/depayloader/encoder/muxer/payloader elements for use in error dialogs or other messages shown to users.

gst_pb_utils_add_codec_description_to_tag_list() is a utility function for demuxer and decoder elements to add audio/video codec tags from a given (fixed) GstCaps.

Functions

gst_pb_utils_get_source_description ()

gchar *
gst_pb_utils_get_source_description (const gchar *protocol);

Returns a localised string describing a source element handling the protocol specified in protocol , for use in error dialogs or other messages to be seen by the user. Should never return NULL unless protocol is invalid.

This function is mainly for internal use, applications would typically use gst_missing_plugin_message_get_description() to get a description of a missing feature from a missing-plugin message.

Parameters

protocol

the protocol the source element needs to handle, e.g. "http"

 

Returns

a newly-allocated description string, or NULL on error. Free string with g_free() when not needed any longer.


gst_pb_utils_get_sink_description ()

gchar *
gst_pb_utils_get_sink_description (const gchar *protocol);

Returns a localised string describing a sink element handling the protocol specified in protocol , for use in error dialogs or other messages to be seen by the user. Should never return NULL unless protocol is invalid.

This function is mainly for internal use, applications would typically use gst_missing_plugin_message_get_description() to get a description of a missing feature from a missing-plugin message.

Parameters

protocol

the protocol the sink element needs to handle, e.g. "http"

 

Returns

a newly-allocated description string, or NULL on error. Free string with g_free() when not needed any longer.


gst_pb_utils_get_decoder_description ()

gchar *
gst_pb_utils_get_decoder_description (const GstCaps *caps);

Returns a localised string describing an decoder for the format specified in caps , for use in error dialogs or other messages to be seen by the user. Should never return NULL unless factory_name or caps are invalid.

This function is mainly for internal use, applications would typically use gst_missing_plugin_message_get_description() to get a description of a missing feature from a missing-plugin message.

Parameters

caps

the (fixed) GstCaps for which an decoder description is needed

 

Returns

a newly-allocated description string, or NULL on error. Free string with g_free() when not needed any longer.


gst_pb_utils_get_encoder_description ()

gchar *
gst_pb_utils_get_encoder_description (const GstCaps *caps);

Returns a localised string describing an encoder for the format specified in caps , for use in error dialogs or other messages to be seen by the user. Should never return NULL unless factory_name or caps are invalid.

This function is mainly for internal use, applications would typically use gst_missing_plugin_message_get_description() to get a description of a missing feature from a missing-plugin message.

Parameters

caps

the (fixed) GstCaps for which an encoder description is needed

 

Returns

a newly-allocated description string, or NULL on error. Free string with g_free() when not needed any longer.


gst_pb_utils_get_element_description ()

gchar *
gst_pb_utils_get_element_description (const gchar *factory_name);

Returns a localised string describing the given element, for use in error dialogs or other messages to be seen by the user. Should never return NULL unless factory_name is invalid.

This function is mainly for internal use, applications would typically use gst_missing_plugin_message_get_description() to get a description of a missing feature from a missing-plugin message.

Parameters

factory_name

the name of the element, e.g. "giosrc"

 

Returns

a newly-allocated description string, or NULL on error. Free string with g_free() when not needed any longer.


gst_pb_utils_add_codec_description_to_tag_list ()

gboolean
gst_pb_utils_add_codec_description_to_tag_list
                               (GstTagList *taglist,
                                const gchar *codec_tag,
                                const GstCaps *caps);

Adds a codec tag describing the format specified by caps to taglist .

Parameters

taglist

a GstTagList

 

codec_tag

a GStreamer codec tag such as GST_TAG_AUDIO_CODEC, GST_TAG_VIDEO_CODEC or GST_TAG_CODEC. If none is specified, the function will attempt to detect the appropriate category.

[allow-none]

caps

the (fixed) GstCaps for which a codec tag should be added.

 

Returns

TRUE if a codec tag was added, FALSE otherwise.


gst_pb_utils_get_codec_description ()

gchar *
gst_pb_utils_get_codec_description (const GstCaps *caps);

Returns a localised (as far as this is possible) string describing the media format specified in caps , for use in error dialogs or other messages to be seen by the user. Should never return NULL unless caps is invalid.

Also see the convenience function gst_pb_utils_add_codec_description_to_tag_list().

Parameters

caps

the (fixed) GstCaps for which an format description is needed

 

Returns

a newly-allocated description string, or NULL on error. Free string with g_free() when not needed any longer.

Types and Values

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