ElementClass.setMetadata

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

class ElementClass

void

setMetadata

(

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>"