ElementClass.setMetadata

Sets the detailed information for a #GstElementClass. > This function is for use in _class_init functions only.

class ElementClass
void
setMetadata
(
string longname
,,,
string author
)

Parameters

longname string

The long English name of the element. E.g. "File Sink"

classification string

String describing the type of element, as an unordered list separated with slashes ('/'). See draft-klass.txt of the design docs for more details and common types. E.g: "Sink/File"

description string

Sentence describing the purpose of the element. E.g: "Write stream to a file"

author string

Name and contact details of the author(s). Use \n to separate multiple author metadata. E.g: "Joe Bloggs <joe.blogs at foo.com>"

Meta