Struct gst::Bin

pub struct Bin {
    // some fields omitted
}

GstBin is an element that can contain other GstElement, allowing them to be managed as a group. Pads from the child elements can be ghosted to the bin, see GstGhostPad. This makes the bin look like any other elements and enables creation of higher-level abstraction elements.

A new GstBin is created with gst_bin_new(). Use a GstPipeline instead if you want to create a toplevel bin because a normal bin doesn't have a bus or handle clock distribution of its own.

After the bin has been created you will typically add elements to it with gst_bin_add(). You can remove elements with gst_bin_remove().

An element can be retrieved from a bin with gst_bin_get_by_name(), using the elements name. gst_bin_get_by_name_recurse_up() is mainly used for internal purposes and will query the parent bins when the element is not found in the current bin.

An iterator of elements in a bin can be retrieved with gst_bin_iterate_elements(). Various other iterators exist to retrieve the elements in a bin.

gst_object_unref() is used to drop your reference to the bin.

The “element-added” signal is fired whenever a new element is added to the bin. Likewise the “element-removed” signal is fired whenever an element is removed from the bin. Notes

A GstBin internally intercepts every GstMessage posted by its children and implements the following default behaviour for each of them:

GST_MESSAGE_EOS

This message is only posted by sinks in the PLAYING state. If all sinks posted the EOS message, this bin will post and EOS message upwards.

GST_MESSAGE_SEGMENT_START

just collected and never forwarded upwards. The messages are used to decide when all elements have completed playback of their segment.

GST_MESSAGE_SEGMENT_DONE

Is posted by GstBin when all elements that posted a SEGMENT_START have posted a SEGMENT_DONE.

GST_MESSAGE_DURATION_CHANGED

Is posted by an element that detected a change in the stream duration. The default bin behaviour is to clear any cached duration values so that the next duration query will perform a full duration recalculation. The duration change is posted to the application so that it can refetch the new duration with a duration query. Note that these messages can be posted before the bin is prerolled, in which case the duration query might fail.

GST_MESSAGE_CLOCK_LOST

This message is posted by an element when it can no longer provide a clock. The default bin behaviour is to check if the lost clock was the one provided by the bin. If so and the bin is currently in the PLAYING state, the message is forwarded to the bin parent. This message is also generated when a clock provider is removed from the bin. If this message is received by the application, it should PAUSE the pipeline and set it back to PLAYING to force a new clock distribution.

GST_MESSAGE_CLOCK_PROVIDE

This message is generated when an element can provide a clock. This mostly happens when a new clock provider is added to the bin. The default behaviour of the bin is to mark the currently selected clock as dirty, which will perform a clock recalculation the next time the bin is asked to provide a clock. This message is never sent tot the application but is forwarded to the parent of the bin.

OTHERS

posted upwards.

A GstBin implements the following default behaviour for answering to a GstQuery:

GST_QUERY_DURATION

If the query has been asked before with the same format and the bin is a toplevel bin (ie. has no parent), use the cached previous value. If no previous value was cached, the query is sent to all sink elements in the bin and the MAXIMUM of all values is returned. If the bin is a toplevel bin the value is cached. If no sinks are available in the bin, the query fails.

GST_QUERY_POSITION

The query is sent to all sink elements in the bin and the MAXIMUM of all values is returned. If no sinks are available in the bin, the query fails.

OTHERS

the query is forwarded to all sink elements, the result of the first sink that answers the query successfully is returned. If no sink is in the bin, the query fails.

A GstBin will by default forward any event sent to it to all sink elements. If all the sinks return TRUE, the bin will also return TRUE, else FALSE is returned. If no sinks are in the bin, the event handler will return TRUE.

Methods

impl Bin

fn new(name: &str) -> Option<Bin>

Creates a new bin with the given name.

unsafe fn new_from_gst_bin(element: *mut GstBin) -> Option<Bin>

Creates a new bin from an already existing raw pointer to a GstBin. The passed element has to be fully referenced

Trait Implementations

impl Sync for Bin

impl Send for Bin

impl BinT for Bin

fn add<E>(&mut self, element: E) -> bool where E: ElementT

Adds the given element to the bin. Sets the element's parent, and thus adds a reference.

fn as_bin(&self) -> &Bin

fn as_bin_mut(&mut self) -> &mut Bin

fn remove(&mut self, element: &ElementT) -> bool

Remove the element from its associated bin.

fn get_by_name(&self, name: &str) -> Option<Element>

Get the element with the given name from this bin.

fn recalculate_latency(&self) -> bool

Query bin for the current latency using and reconfigures this latency to all the elements with a LATENCY event.

fn set_async_handling(&self, async: bool)

If set to true, the bin will handle asynchronous state changes. This should be used only if the bin subclass is modifying the state of its children on its own

fn set_message_forward(&self, forward: bool)

Forward all children messages, even those that would normally be filtered by the bin. This can be interesting when one wants to be notified of the EOS state of individual elements, for example.

unsafe fn gst_bin(&self) -> *const GstBin

Returns a const raw pointer to the internal GstElement

unsafe fn gst_bin_mut(&mut self) -> *mut GstBin

Returns a mut raw pointer to the internal GstElement

fn to_bin(&self) -> Bin

impl Transfer for Bin

unsafe fn transfer(self) -> *mut GstElement

Consumes the current object and transfers ownership of the raw pointer Used to transfer ownership to ffi functions, should be used when an ffi function expects full transfer of an object to avoid the original object to be unreferenced in the process