[gst-devel] gstoggmux EOS handling issue

[Daniel Drake]

On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 14:11 +0100, Tim-Philipp Müller wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 14:07 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> > I have investigated further and I believe it is a bug in the gstoggmux
> > ...
> > I'm attaching a patch which fixes the problem - my recordtwice program
> > now records two vidoes of videotestsrc. Unfortunately it doesn't
> > actually fix the real application which I was trying to fix, but I
> > believe that I've found a real bug and fixing this is a necessary step
> > in the process...
> 
> I think you're right, but could you put this in bugzilla please?
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org (component: gst-plugins-base)

Thanks, done:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546955

> (Btw, not sure what exactly you were trying to fix, and I only had a
> very quick look at your code, but at first glance the shutdown sequence
> doesn't seem ideal: as far as I can see it won't shut down cleanly with
> an EOS making it through the recording bin; for ogg this just means that
> in the worst case you're losing a few frames at the end; with other
> muxers you might get slightly broken and/or indexless files).

Can you elaborate on this or point me at the relevant documentation,
please? I am quite new to gstreamer and this bug is likely also present
in the real app that I'm trying to fix: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Record

Thanks,
Daniel