[gst-devel] Direct Show video sink expose event support

[Michael Smith]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Andoni Morales <ylatuya at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I'm trying to add frame stepping support to my video player and I'm
> having some troubles on Windows using the directshowvideosink.
>
> On linux, even with the pipeline in paused state, when I seek to the
> next frame, this one is drawn without even calling the
> gst_x_overlay_expose() method.
>
> Instead on Windows I need to set the the pipeline into playing state
> before sending the seek event and then reset the pipeline to paused
> state to get the next frame displayed, which doesn't always work  as
> some times the seek is done before returning to the paused state.
>
> Why, using the Direct Show video sink, the current frame isn't not
> drawn when the pipeline is in paused state?

I guess it's a bug - please report it in bugzilla.

Mike