Suppose I have an application written with GStreamer that has a pipeline for processing video data. For simplicity let's assume it looks like this:
appsrc->identity->appsink
While application with this hardcoded pipeline provides some functionality, I could imagine that users of my application might want to replace identity element with arbitrarily complex pipelines (still having the interface with one sink and one source with defined capabilities). Does GStreamer provide any functionality that would allow injecting whole pipelines into my application? If the pipeline could be defined with gst-launch it would be great, but C code is also fine. Or do I need to resort to some generic mechanisms for writing plugins?