This plugin writes incoming data to a local or remote location specified by an URI. This location can be specified using any protocol supported by the GnomeVFS library. Common protocols are 'file', 'ftp', or 'smb'.

Example pipeline:

gst-launch -v filesrc location=input.xyz ! gnomevfssink location=file:///home/joe/out.xyz

The above pipeline will simply copy a local file. Instead of gnomevfssink, we could just as well have used the filesink element here.

Another example pipeline:

gst-launch -v filesrc location=foo.mp3 ! mad ! flacenc ! gnomevfssink location=smb://othercomputer/foo.flac

The above pipeline will re-encode an mp3 file into FLAC format and store it on a remote host using the Samba protocol.

Applications can connect to the allow-overwrite signal to receive a callback when an existing file will be overwritten. The return value of the signal will determine if gnomevfssink will overwrite the resource or abort with an error.

Element Information

GstGnomeVFSSink

typedef struct _GstGnomeVFSSink GstGnomeVFSSink;

Opaque data structure.

The "handle" property

  "handle"                   GnomeVFSHandle*       : Read / Write

Handle for GnomeVFS.

The "location" property

  "location"                 gchar*                : Read / Write

Location of the file to write.

Default value: NULL

The "uri" property

  "uri"                      GnomeVFSURI*          : Read / Write

URI for GnomeVFS.

The "allow-overwrite" signal

gboolean            user_function                      (GstGnomeVFSSink *sink,
                                                        GnomeVFSURI     *uri,
                                                        gpointer         user_data)      : Cleanup

This signal is fired when gnomevfssink is about to overwrite an existing resource. The application can connect to this signal and ask the user if the resource may be overwritten.