The controller subsystem offers a lightweight way to adjust gobject properties over stream-time. It works by using time-stamped value pairs that are queued for element-properties. At run-time the elements continously pull values changes for the current stream-time. This subsystem is contained within the gstcontroller library. You need to include the header in your application's source file: ... #include <gst/gst.h> #include <gst/controller/gstcontroller.h> ... Your application should link to the shared library gstreamer-controller. The gstreamer-controller library needs to be initialized when your application is run. This can be done after the the GStreamer library has been initialized. ... gst_init (&argc, &argv); gst_controller_init (&argc, &argv); ... The first step is to select the parameters that should be controlled. This returns a controller object that is needed to further adjust the behaviour. controller = g_object_control_properties(object, "prop1", "prop2",...); Next we can select an interpolation mode. This mode controls how inbetween values are determined. The controller subsystem can e.g. fill gaps by smoothing parameter changes. Each controllable GObject property can be interpolated differently. gst_controller_set_interpolation_mode(controller,"prop1",mode); Finally one needs to set control points. These are time-stamped GValues. The values become active when the timestamp is reached. They still stay in the list. If e.g. the pipeline runs a loop (using a segmented seek), the control-curve gets repeated as well. gst_controller_set (controller, "prop1" ,0 * GST_SECOND, value1); gst_controller_set (controller, "prop1" ,1 * GST_SECOND, value2); The controller subsystem has a builtin live-mode. Even though a parameter has timestamped control-values assigned one can change the GObject property through g_object_set(). This is highly useful when binding the GObject properties to GUI widgets. When the user adjusts the value with the widget, one can set the GOBject property and this remains active until the next timestamped value overrides. This also works with smoothed parameters.