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<chapter id="cha-connections">
<title>Connecting elements</title>
<para>
You can connect the different pads of elements together so that the elements
form a chain.
</para>
<figure float="1" id="sec-connection">
<title>Visualisation of three connected elements</title>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="images/connected-elements" format="PNG">
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
<para>
By connecting these three elements, we have created a very simple pipeline. The effect
of this will be that the output of the source element (element1) will be used as input
for the filter element (element2). The filter element will do something with the data and
send the result to the final sink element (element3).
</para>
<para>
Imagine the above graph as a simple mpeg audio decoder. The source element is a
disk source, the filter element is the mpeg decoder and the sink element is your
audiocard. We will use this simple graph to construct an mpeg player later
in this manual.
</para>
<para>
You can connect two pads with:
</para>
<programlisting>
GstPad *srcpad, *sinkpad;
srcpad = gst_element_get_pad (element1, "src");
sinpad = gst_element_get_pad (element2, "sink");
// connect them
gst_pad_connect (srcpad, sinkpad);
....
// and disconnect them
gst_pad_disconnect (srcpad, sinkpad);
</programlisting>
<para>
A convenient shortcut for the above code is done with the gst_element_connect ()
function:
</para>
<programlisting>
// connect them
gst_element_connect (element1, "src", element2, "sink");
....
// and disconnect them
gst_element_disconnect (element1, "src", element2, "sink");
</programlisting>
<para>
You can query if a pad is connected with GST_PAD_IS_CONNECTED (pad).
</para>
<para>
To query for the <classname>GstPad</classname> this srcpad is connected to, use
gst_pad_get_peer (srcpad).
</para>
</chapter>