Format#

class Format#

Standard predefined formats

Methods#

class Format

get_by_nick() → Format#: Return the format registered with the given nick.

get_details() → FormatDefinition | None#: Get details about the given format.

get_name() → str | None#: Get a printable name for the given format. Do not modify or free.

iterate_definitions() → Iterator#: Iterate all the registered formats. The format definition is read only.

register(description: str) → Format#

Create a new GstFormat based on the nick or return an already registered format with that nick.

Parameters:: description – The description of the new format

to_quark() → int#: Get the unique quark for the given format.

Fields#

class Format

BUFFERS#: Buffers (few, if any, elements implement this as of May 2009)

BYTES#: Bytes

DEFAULT#: The default format of the pad/element. This can be samples for raw audio, frames/fields for raw video (some, but not all, elements support this; use GST_FORMAT_TIME if you don’t have a good reason to query for samples/frames)

PERCENT#: Percentage of stream (few, if any, elements implement this as of May 2009)

TIME#: Time in nanoseconds

UNDEFINED#: Undefined format