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// gcc -Wall -pedantic -o test test.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs glib-2.0` `pkg-config --cflags --libs gstreamer-0.10` -std=c99

#include <gst/gst.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main (void) {
	GMainLoop * loop;

	GstElement *pipeline, *source, *converter, *speex_enc, *speex_dec, *converter_2, *queue, *sink;
	
	// initialize gstreamer, don't parse options
	gst_init (NULL, NULL);
	loop = g_main_loop_new (NULL, FALSE);

	// make the pices

	pipeline = gst_pipeline_new ("streamer");
	source = gst_element_factory_make ("alsasrc", "input");
	converter = gst_element_factory_make ("audioconvert", "converter_1");
	speex_enc = gst_element_factory_make ("speexenc", "encoder");
	speex_dec = gst_element_factory_make ("speexdec", "decoder");
	converter_2 = gst_element_factory_make ("audioconvert", "converter_2");
	queue = gst_element_factory_make ("queue", "buffer");
	sink = gst_element_factory_make ("alsasink", "output");

	// add all into pipeline
	
	gst_bin_add_many (GST_BIN (pipeline), source, converter, speex_enc, speex_dec, converter_2, queue, sink, NULL);

	// link source to sink.
	gst_element_link_many (source, converter, speex_enc, speex_dec, converter_2, queue, sink, NULL);

	//g_object_set (G_OBJECT (queue), "min-threshold-time", 20000, NULL);

	// begin!
	gst_element_set_state (pipeline, GST_STATE_PLAYING);
	//g_main_loop_run (loop);
	//
	sleep (10);
	gst_element_set_state (pipeline, GST_STATE_NULL);

	// it should get here when finished (never?)
	gst_object_unref (GST_OBJECT (pipeline));

	return 0;
}