gst-launch-ext can be used to play common media files with fixed pipes based on the file extension.

Original commit message from CVS:
gst-launch-ext can be used to play common media files with fixed pipes
based on the file extension.

It optionally uses a .gst file in the home directory to select preferred
audio and video sinks.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/tools/gst-launch-ext b/tools/gst-launch-ext
index 6c5cd893..74e9caa1 100755
--- a/tools/gst-launch-ext
+++ b/tools/gst-launch-ext
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ sub extension
 
 sub read_config
 {
-  my $config_file = "~/.gst";
+  my $config_file = `echo -n ~`."/.gst";
   if (-e $config_file)
   {
     open CONFIG, $config_file;
@@ -45,18 +45,10 @@ sub read_config
   else
   {
     print "No configuration file $config_file found.  You might want to create one.\n";
-    $cfg{AUDIOSINK} = "osssink";
-    $cfg{VIDEOSINK} = "xvideosink";
-    $cfg{CVS_PATH} = "~/gst/cvs";
-  }
-
-  # check for gst-launch in cvs dir
-  $GST_LAUNCH=$cfg{CVS_PATH}."/gstreamer/tools/gst-launch";
-  if (! -x $GST_LAUNCH)
-  {
-    # let's hope it's installed ...
-    $GST_LAUNCH="gst-launch";
   }
+  if (!defined $cfg{AUDIOSINK}) { $cfg{AUDIOSINK} = "osssink"; }
+  if (!defined $cfg{VIDEOSINK}) { $cfg{VIDEOSINK} = "sdlvideosink"; }
+  if (!defined $cfg{CVS_PATH})  { $cfg{CVS_PATH} =  `echo -n ~`."/gst/cvs"; }
 }
 
 ### main
@@ -66,7 +58,7 @@ read_config ();
 my %pipes = ( 
   "mp3", "mad ! $cfg{AUDIOSINK}",
   "ogg", "vorbisdec ! $cfg{AUDIOSINK}",
-  "mpg", "mpegdemux video_00! { queue ! mpeg2dec ! $cfg{VIDEOSINK} } audio_00! { queue ! mad ! $cfg{AUDIOSINK} }",
+  "mpg", "mpegdemux audio_00! { queue ! mad ! $cfg{AUDIOSINK} } mpegdemux0.video_00! { queue ! mpeg2dec ! $cfg{VIDEOSINK} }",
   "avi", "avidemux video_00! { queue ! windec ! $cfg{VIDEOSINK} }",
   "vob", "mpegdemux video_00! { queue ! mpeg2dec ! $cfg{VIDEOSINK} }",
 
@@ -77,9 +69,9 @@ my $ext = extension ($file);
 
 if ($pipe = $pipes{$ext})
 {
-  $command = "$GST_LAUNCH filesrc location=\"$file\" ! $pipe";
+  $command = "gst-launch filesrc location=\"$file\" ! $pipe";
   print "Running $command\n";
-  system ($command);
+  system ("PATH=\$PATH:".$cfg{CVS_PATH}."/gstreamer/tools/gst-launch $command");
 }
 else
 {