On 30 November 2016 at 15:44, Johnny G. Mills <joh...@spotcrowd.com> wrote: > Hey community, > > First a small introduction. I'm Johnny G. Mills from Spotcrowd.com a > start-up doing retail video surveillance. > Started with GStreamer (and C) a month ago. > > when using gst_parse_launch / CLI I don't understand the backslash. Example: > src: > http://wiki.oz9aec.net/index.php/Gstreamer_cheat_sheet#Encoding_and_Muxing > >> gst-launch >> -1.0 >> videotestsrc num-buffers=500 ! video/x-raw-yuv, framerate=25/1, width=640, >> height=360 ! x264enc \ ! mpegtsmux ! filesink location=test.ts > > > What does this do?
The backslash tells the shell (bash) that the command continues on to the next line. It has nothing to do with gst-launch. Best regards, Bjørn Forsman _______________________________________________ gstreamer-embedded mailing list gstreamer-embedded@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-embedded
