[gst-devel] Reconnecting to a rtsp stream after EOS

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On 01/27/2011 07:28 AM, Andreas Lubensky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using an uridecobin to decode all kinds of videos, including rtsp
> streams.
> Usually I want videos to loop seamlessly, so I seek the video with
> GST_SEEK_FLAG_SEGMANT to get a GST_MESSAGE_SEGMENT_DONE
> and seek back to the beginning.
> I use vlc to broadcast the rtsp stream and there looping basically means that
> the stream is closed and restarted again. That gives me a
> GST_MESSAGE_EOS. Unfortunately just seeking to the beginning or setting
> the pipeline state to GST_STATE_NULL and GST_STATE_PLAYING to
> reconnect the stream has no effect.

Don't set state to NULL, AFAIK that removes all settings (like the uri 
etc). Have you tried setting it to READY and then PLAYING?