GstElementDetails

The GstElementDetails structure gives a hierarchical type for the element, a human-readable description of the element, as well as author and version data. The entries are:

• A long, english, name for the element.

• The type of the element, see the docs/design/draft-klass.txt document in the GStreamer core source tree for details and examples.

• A brief description of the purpose of the element.

• The name of the author of the element, optionally followed by a contact email address in angle brackets.

For example:

static const GstElementDetails my_filter_details = {
  "An example plugin",
  "Example/FirstExample",
  "Shows the basic structure of a plugin",
  "your name <your.name@your.isp>"
};
    

The element details are registered with the plugin during the _base_init () function, which is part of the GObject system. The _base_init () function should be set for this GObject in the function where you register the type with GLib.

static void
gst_my_filter_base_init (gpointer klass)
{
  GstElementClass *element_class = GST_ELEMENT_CLASS (klass);

  static const GstElementDetails my_filter_details = {
[..]
  };

[..]
  gst_element_class_set_details (element_class, &my_filter_details);

}