caps issues: - We can't really tell until PAUSED that 'sinesrc ! identity ! ximagesink' will fail (since identity has ANY as the pad template caps). Because of this, it's nearly useless to perform the pad template check. Alternatives: proxy pad template caps, but that reinstates the O(N^2) issue in 0.8 during linking lots of elements. remove checking of pad template caps compatibility add a means of checking a pipeline for caps compatibility before setting to PAUSED (ugly, requires special processing in each element)