playbin

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Overview

This example demonstrates GStreamer's playbin element.

This element takes an arbitrary URI as parameter, and if there is a source element within gstreamer, that supports this uri, the playbin will try to automatically create a pipeline that properly plays this media source. For this, the playbin internally relies on more bin elements, like the autovideosink and the decodebin. Essentially, this element is a single-element pipeline able to play any format from any uri-addressable source that gstreamer supports. Much of the playbin's behavior can be controlled by so-called flags, as well as the playbin's properties and signals.