Why using playbin directly instead of using GstPlay?

[sdroege]

Hi,

GStreamer developer here. I'm curious why you're using playbin directly instead of using GstPlay :)
Are there any specific features you're missing, any severe bugs you were running into, anything else?

[Userwithaname]

Hi, sorry, it's moreso just inexperience. When I was starting out with this project, I couldn't find much Rust-specific GStreamer documentation, so I was learning from the C-based one. I knew I also wanted gapless playback support, and looking up "gstreamer gapless playback" brought me to PlayBin3. I had a hard time getting started in general (I tried a few approaches that I could find), so when using it directly worked, I just stuck with it.

[sdroege]

Not a problem at all. Feel free to ask me or ask on the GStreamer Matrix.

GstPlay currently does not support gapless playback so you wouldn't really have any choice. That's a feature we'd like to support but it was waiting for someone to actually need it so we can together figure out a nice API (about-to-finish is not nice because of the threading complications).