[gst-devel] Several novice questions

[Edward Hervey]

Hi,

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 08:28 -0700, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> 1. I gather that I am expected to change the state of the player on EOS
> (which seems strange to me as I would have thought that the player would
> know to stop playing when the stream has ended).  To this end, I included
> the following code:
> 
>     self.player = gst.element_factory_make('playbin', 'player')
>     bus = self.player.get_bus()
>     bus.add_signal_watch()
>     bus.connect('message', self.on_message)
> 
> def on_message(self, bus, message):
>     print "Got message", message  # nothing ever prints
>     t = message.type
>     if t in (gst.MESSAGE_EOS, gst.MESSAGE_ERROR):
>         self.player.set_state(gst.STATE_NULL)
> 
> However, on_message is never called.  Any idea what I am doing wrong?

  Are you running a mainloop ? I think it won't work if you're not
runnign a mainloop.

> 
> 2. get_state() returns a tuple (with 3 elements) of the Element's current
> state.  Where is the documentation on the elements of the tuple?  It
> appears that the second element is the actual state.  Is this observation
> always true?

  Look in the C API for gst_element_get_state. The returned values are
the 3 last arguments of that function.

> 
> 3. I would like to know the elapsed ratio so I tried
> query_position(gst.FORMAT_PERCENT).  I get a query error.  It works to do
> query_position(gst.FORMAT_TIME) and query_duration(gst.FORMAT_TIME) and
> compute the ratio, but why doesn't the simpler solution work?  Is
> gst.FORMAT_PERCENT a percentage (0 to 100), as the name implies, or is it
> actually a ratio (0 to 1)?
> 

   What are you doing that query on ? the pipeline ? the sinks ?

> In case it matters, I am using GStreamer 0.10.14 on Kubuntu 7.10 with Python
> 2.5.1.