[gst-devel] new-segment events on decoders

[Edward Hervey]

NEW_SEGMENT is a downstream event.

Just do a seek for the requested interval on the pipeline.

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 10:42 +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm writing a simple application to checksum lossless CD rips and
> compare them against a database of known-good rips.
> 
> I need to be able to get all decoded samples between two offsets.
> 
> I'm assuming that the right way to do this using GStreamer is to
> construct a decoding pipeline with appsink, and send a new-segment event
> to appsink requesting the bytes I'm interested in.
> 
> However, this doesn't work atm.  For starters, it crashes with flacdec.
> That was easy enough to work around, but after that it still doesn't
> really work.
> 
> So, my questions:
> 
> - is the approach the right one ?
> - why do decoders not handle NEWSEGMENT events in their src_event
> handler ? (I checked flacdec, vorbisdec, and mad)
> - why does flacdec use gst_pad_event_default as the default handler,
> while others seem to just push the event to their sinkpad ?
> 
> Thomas
> 
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