diff --git a/gst/playback/gstplaybin2.c b/gst/playback/gstplaybin2.c
index 4a056a0e11..acdcf6cb35 100644
--- a/gst/playback/gstplaybin2.c
+++ b/gst/playback/gstplaybin2.c
@@ -4987,7 +4987,7 @@ done:
    * if a parser asks us but a decoder is required after it
    * because no sink can handle the format directly.
    */
-  {
+  if (gst_caps_is_empty (result)) {
     GstPad *target = gst_ghost_pad_get_target (GST_GHOST_PAD (pad));
 
     if (target) {