[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 456573] allow dumping pipelines as dot graphs

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------- Comment #9 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2007-09-07 21:00 UTC -------
Another thought: we should check the number of '%' without following '%' in the
template string before feeding it to printf to make sure the template is
correct.  Maybe even take separate directory + filename arguments (that way the
caller has more control over the template and can make sure more easily that
there aren't any unexpected % in the path).


(In reply to comment #8)
> * I don't think a new library is a good idea, sticking it into an existing one
> might be okay.

That's what I meant. -base/gst-libs/gst/pbutils/  already exists.


> But if people feel its too big - it disapprears totally when
> doing --disable-gst-debug

It's not about size (for me at least).  It seems to me more like a function
that would never really be used in production code anyway.


> * Its not that slow. I've putted it once in state-change. I though about
> creating a video from the graphs. The impact on the execution was not 
> noticable

Everything that writes to file is potentially slow.  I was more worried about
people putting it into the streaming thread and then forgetting about it and
complaining that GStreamer is soo slow ;)


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