Auto-generating your own plugin

You will find a helper script in gst-plugins/tools/make_element to generate the source/header files for a new plugin.

To create sources for myfilter based on the gsttransform template run:

cd gst-plugin/tools
bash make_element.sh myfilter gsttransform

This will create gstmyfilter.c and gstmyfilter.h. Open them in an editor and start editing. There are several occurances of the string template, update those with real values. The plugin will be called myfilter and it will have one element called myfilter too. Also look for FIXME: markers that point you to places where you need to edit the code.