Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Gapless/crossfade playback in svn trunk

["James \"Doc\" Livingston" <doclivingston gmail com>]

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 07:29 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 08:26:52PM +0200, Christophe Dehais wrote:
> > >* my spectrum analyser plugin doesn't work with it (It listens to
> > >messages on the bus, I'll investigate that)
> > 
> > 
> > The problem is that I register a bus handler when notified by this
> > portion of code of gst-player-gst.c
> > 
> > 	/* let plugins add bits to playbin */
> > 	g_object_notify (G_OBJECT (mp), "playbin");
> > 
> > maybe we should clarify the way plugins can access the gst bus ?
> 
> The crossfading backend won't emit this signal as it doesn't use
> playbin.  I haven't looked at the spectrum analyser plugin at all, but
> I'd be surprised if you need a signal just to find a bus to watch.

If you need the pipeline bus, as opposed to the bus for your element,
try:

GstElement *current, *parent;

current = parent = myelement;
while (parent != NULL) {
    current = parent;
    parent = gst_element_get_parent (current);
}

bus = gst_pipeline_get_bus (GST_PIPELINE (current));


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
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