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9 GstBin is the simplest of the container elements, allowing elements to
10 become children of itself. Pads from the child elements can be ghosted to
11 the bin, making the bin itself look transparently like any other element,
12 allowing for deep nesting of predefined sub-pipelines.
15 A new GstBin is created with gst_bin_new(). Use a #GstPipeline instead if you want
16 to create a toplevel bin because a normal bin doesn't have a scheduler of its
20 After the bin has been created you will typically add elements to it with
21 gst_bin_add(). You can remove elements with gst_bin_remove().
24 An element can be retrieved from a bin with gst_bin_get_by_name(), using the
25 elements name. gst_bin_get_by_name_recurse_up() is mainly used for internal
26 purposes and will query the parent bins when the element is not found in the
30 The list of elements in a bin can be retrieved with gst_bin_get_list().
33 After the bin has been set to the PLAYING state (with gst_element_set_state()),
34 gst_bin_iterate() is used to process the elements in the bin.
37 The "element_added" signal is fired whenever a new element is added to the bin.
40 The "element_removed" signal is fired whenever an element is removed from the bin.
43 gst_bin_destroy() is used to destroy the bin.
46 To control the selection of the clock in a bin, you can use the following methods:
47 gst_bin_auto_clock() to let the bin select a clock automatically, gst_bin_get_clock() to
48 get the current clock of the bin and gst_bin_use_clock() to specify a clock explicitly.
49 Note that the default behaviour is to automatically select a clock from one of the
50 clock providers in the bin.
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58 <!-- ##### ENUM GstBinFlags ##### -->
63 @GST_BIN_FLAG_MANAGER: This bin has a scheduler and can be used as a toplevel bin.
64 @GST_BIN_SELF_SCHEDULABLE: This bin iterates itself, so no calls to gst_bin_iterate() should be made.
65 @GST_BIN_FLAG_PREFER_COTHREADS: This bin preferes to have its elements scheduled with cothreads
66 @GST_BIN_FLAG_FIXED_CLOCK: This bin uses a fixed clock, possibly the one set with gst_bin_use_clock().
69 <!-- ##### STRUCT GstBin ##### -->
75 <!-- ##### USER_FUNCTION GstBinPrePostIterateFunction ##### -->
77 The signature of the callback for the post and pre iterate function as set with
78 gst_bin_set_pre_iterate_function() and gst_bin_set_post_iterate_function().
81 @bin: The bin that performed the callback
85 <!-- ##### FUNCTION gst_bin_new ##### -->
94 <!-- ##### FUNCTION gst_bin_add ##### -->
103 <!-- ##### FUNCTION gst_bin_add_many ##### -->
113 <!-- ##### FUNCTION gst_bin_remove ##### -->
122 <!-- ##### FUNCTION gst_bin_remove_many ##### -->
132 <!-- ##### FUNCTION gst_bin_get_by_name ##### -->
142 <!-- ##### FUNCTION gst_bin_get_by_name_recurse_up ##### -->
152 <!-- ##### FUNCTION gst_bin_get_list ##### -->
161 <!-- ##### FUNCTION gst_bin_iterate ##### -->
170 <!-- ##### FUNCTION gst_bin_set_post_iterate_function ##### -->
180 <!-- ##### FUNCTION gst_bin_set_pre_iterate_function ##### -->
190 <!-- ##### FUNCTION gst_bin_child_state_change ##### -->
201 <!-- ##### FUNCTION gst_bin_auto_clock ##### -->
209 <!-- ##### FUNCTION gst_bin_get_clock ##### -->
218 <!-- ##### FUNCTION gst_bin_use_clock ##### -->
227 <!-- ##### SIGNAL GstBin::element-added ##### -->
232 @gstbin: the object which received the signal.
233 @arg1: the element that was added to the bin
235 <!-- ##### SIGNAL GstBin::element-removed ##### -->
240 @gstbin: the object which received the signal.
241 @arg1: the element that was removed from the bin
243 <!-- ##### SIGNAL GstBin::iterate ##### -->
245 This signal is emitted when a bin iterates, either automatically or
246 due to a #gst_bin_iterate() call. The return value is used to
247 determine if the object method handler processed any data.
248 In most normal cases, a user-provided signal handler should return
252 @gstbin: the object which received the signal.
253 @Returns: TRUE if the state of the bin was advanced.