Element.requestPadSimple

Retrieves a pad from the element by name (e.g. "src_\d"). This version only retrieves request pads. The pad should be released with gst.element.Element.releaseRequestPad.

This method is slower than manually getting the pad template and calling gst.element.Element.requestPad if the pads should have a specific name (e.g. name is "src_1" instead of "src_\u").

Note that this function was introduced in GStreamer 1.20 in order to provide a better name to gst.element.Element.getRequestPad. Prior to 1.20, users should use gst.element.Element.getRequestPad which provides the same functionality.

class Element
requestPadSimple
(
string name
)

Parameters

name string

the name of the request #GstPad to retrieve.

Return Value

Type: gst.pad.Pad

requested #GstPad if found, otherwise null. Release after usage.