Unable to play uri using gst_element_make_from_uri in gstreamer

Question

Hi

I need to stream rtsp / http stream and when i create an element source using source = gst_element_make_from_uri(); it doesn't work. Has anybody used gstreamer for streaming rtsp / http streams.

Please help.. I am attaching the code snippet also

source   = gst_element_make_from_uri (GST_URI_SRC,"http://76.73.90.27:80/" ,NULL);
decoder = gst_element_factory_make ("mad",      "mad-decoder"); 
sink     = gst_element_factory_make ("alsasink", "audio-output");
g_object_set (G_OBJECT (source), "location", argv[1], NULL);
gst_element_set_state (pipeline, GST_STATE_NULL);

bus = gst_pipeline_get_bus (GST_PIPELINE (pipeline));
gst_bus_add_watch (bus, bus_call, loop);
gst_object_unref (bus);

gst_bin_add_many (GST_BIN (pipeline),
                  source, decoder,sink, NULL);

gst_element_link_many (source, decoder, sink, NULL);

gst_element_set_state (pipeline, GST_STATE_PLAYING);

g_main_loop_run (loop);
gst_element_set_state (pipeline, GST_STATE_NULL);
gst_object_unref (GST_OBJECT (pipeline));

Answer 1

You are pointing at the wrong IP address. That IP is a normal web server, not streaming radio. Try playing the radio station's .m3u in a music player and see which address it actually plays.

Instead, try running gst-launch souphttpsrc location=http://76.73.52.173/ ! decodebin ! autoaudiosink. You can use gst_parse_launch() to use these same strings in your program, and your program will be much shorter.