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| author | Sam Thursfield <sam.thursfield@codethink.co.uk> | 2017-01-23 14:30:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com> | 2018-01-12 00:49:20 +0000 |
| commit | f1324f9cb05593d272b171fbd38ccf7692f4d96b (patch) | |
| tree | be9853c940659d247a298c948a12c72db1c77946 /gst | |
| parent | c4be7eca5d87babb941843e677e237b305d7e9f2 (diff) | |
videotestsrc: Document the num-buffers property
It's not obvious from the existing docs that this option exists, nor
that it can be used to give a pipeline an exact length in video frames.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777647
Diffstat (limited to 'gst')
| -rw-r--r-- | gst/videotestsrc/gstvideotestsrc.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gst/videotestsrc/gstvideotestsrc.c b/gst/videotestsrc/gstvideotestsrc.c index 93d0b1320..d7e034720 100644 --- a/gst/videotestsrc/gstvideotestsrc.c +++ b/gst/videotestsrc/gstvideotestsrc.c @@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ * of formats. The video test data produced can be controlled with the "pattern" * property. * + * By default the videotestsrc will generate data indefinitely, but if the + * #GstBaseSrc:num-buffers property is non-zero it will instead generate a + * fixed number of video frames and then send EOS. + * * ## Example launch line * |[ * gst-launch-1.0 -v videotestsrc pattern=snow ! video/x-raw,width=1280,height=720 ! autovideosink |