Earlier, we saw how to play an audio. Like audio, there are different ways in which a video can be streamed. The simplest of these methods is to use the playbin plugin. Another method is to go by the basics, where we create a conventional pipeline and create and link the required pipeline elements. If we only want to play the 'video' track of a video file, then the latter technique is very similar to the one illustrated for audio playback. However, almost always, one would like to hear the audio track for the video being streamed. There is additional work involved to accomplish this. The following diagram is a representative GStreamer pipeline that shows how the data flows in case of a video playback.
In this illustration, the decodebin uses an appropriate decoder to decode the media data from the source element. Depending on the type of data (audio or video), it is then further streamed to the audio or video processing elements through the queue elements. The two queue elements...