Hi, I am new to gstreamer. My requirement is to stream a camera for a certain period (say 2 mins) and then switch camera and stream again for 2 mins and so on. The code looks like this loop = g_main_loop_new (NULL, FALSE); /* create a server instance */ server = gst_rtsp_server_new (); gst_rtsp_server_set_service( server, "554" ); /* get the mapping for this server, every server has a default mapper object * that be used to map uri mount points to media factories */ mapping = gst_rtsp_server_get_media_mapping (server); /* make a media factory for a test stream. The default media factory can use * gst-launch syntax to create pipelines. * any launch line works as long as it contains elements named pay%d. Each * element with pay%d names will be a stream */ factory = gst_rtsp_media_factory_new (); gst_rtsp_media_factory_set_launch (factory, argv[1]); gst_rtsp_media_factory_set_shared( factory, 1 ); /* attach the test factory to the /test url */ gst_rtsp_media_mapping_add_factory (mapping, "/test", factory); /* don't need the ref to the mapper anymore */ g_object_unref (mapping); /* attach the server to the default maincontext */ gst_rtsp_server_attach (server, NULL); /* start serving */ g_main_loop_run (loop); So, the g_main_loop_run (loop) function loops forever. How can I make it to stop after certain period of time? Thanks, Krishnan