Element.setState

Sets the state of the element. This function will try to set the requested state by going through all the intermediary states and calling the class's state change function for each.

This function can return GST_STATE_CHANGE_ASYNC, in which case the element will perform the remainder of the state change asynchronously in another thread. An application can use Element.getState to wait for the completion of the state change or it can wait for a GST_MESSAGE_ASYNC_DONE or GST_MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED on the bus.

State changes to GST_STATE_READY or GST_STATE_NULL never return GST_STATE_CHANGE_ASYNC

class Element
setState

Parameters

state GstState

the element's new GstState

Return Value

Result of the state change using GstStateChangeReturn

MT safe.