Element.setState

Sets the state of the element. This function will try to set the requested state by going through all the intermediary states and calling the class's state change function for each.

This function can return #GST_STATE_CHANGE_ASYNC, in which case the element will perform the remainder of the state change asynchronously in another thread. An application can use gst.element.Element.getState to wait for the completion of the state change or it can wait for a gst.types.MessageType.AsyncDone or gst.types.MessageType.StateChanged on the bus.

State changes to gst.types.State.Ready or gst.types.State.Null never return #GST_STATE_CHANGE_ASYNC.

Parameters

state gst.types.State

the element's new #GstState.

Return Value

Type: gst.types.StateChangeReturn

Result of the state change using #GstStateChangeReturn.

MT safe.