Looping playback with GStreamer

Recently on the GStreamer mailing list, someone asked how to loop playback using the playbin element. Since this seemed pretty straightforward, I thought I'd post it here. To clarify, playbin is a higher-level element that greatly simplifies typical playback scenarios. The code posted here is derived from this playbin example. The important addition is the bus callback, which simply listens for an end of stream (EOS) message, and upon receiving it, seeks to the beginning of the stream. This restarts playback.

#include <gst/gst.h>

gboolean bus_callback(GstBus *bus, GstMessage *msg, gpointer data)
{
    GstElement *play = GST_ELEMENT(data);
    switch (GST_MESSAGE_TYPE(msg))
    {
        case GST_MESSAGE_EOS:
            /* restart playback if at end */
            if (!gst_element_seek(play, 
                        1.0, GST_FORMAT_TIME, GST_SEEK_FLAG_FLUSH,
                        GST_SEEK_TYPE_SET, 0,
                        GST_SEEK_TYPE_NONE, GST_CLOCK_TIME_NONE)) {
                g_print("Seek failed!\n");
            }
            break;
        default:
            break;
    }
    return TRUE;
}

gint
main (gint   argc,
      gchar *argv[])
{
  GMainLoop *loop;
  GstElement *play;
  GstBus *bus;

  /* init GStreamer */
  gst_init (&argc, &argv);
  loop = g_main_loop_new (NULL, FALSE);

  /* make sure we have a URI */
  if (argc != 2) {
    g_print ("Usage: %s <URI>\n", argv[0]);
    return -1;
  }

  /* set up */
  play = gst_element_factory_make ("playbin", "play");
  g_object_set (G_OBJECT (play), "uri", argv[1], NULL);

  bus = gst_pipeline_get_bus (GST_PIPELINE (play));
  gst_bus_add_watch (bus, bus_callback, play);
  gst_object_unref (bus);

  gst_element_set_state (play, GST_STATE_PLAYING);

  /* now run */
  g_main_loop_run (loop);

  /* also clean up */
  gst_element_set_state (play, GST_STATE_NULL);
  gst_object_unref (GST_OBJECT (play));

  return 0;
}

New Hey Predator! EP (apologies to the technical readers)

Since I do have the word music in the subtitle of this blog, I thought I should share some of ours for a change. My band Hey Predator! just finished a 5 song EP.
Enjoy:
http://heypredator.bandcamp.com/album/foxholes-and-atheists-and-so-forth