Finally I use (2) - valves- rebuilding the last part of the branch. Since the EOS flushes date itself, I didn't found necessary to block the pads. It useful to destroy the encoders and the filesinks in order to avoid problems with codification and encapsulation. I would like to find a way to "restart" the encoders without removing and creating them anew every time. <div class="gmail_quote">2012/10/12 <a href="mailto:marcin@saepia.net">marcin@saepia.net</a> <<a href="mailto:marcin@saepia.net" target="_blank">marcin@saepia.net</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I suggest 3). If you use 0.10 there are several things that are not so obvious but it is worth trying. m. 2012/10/11 Hector Canto <<a href="mailto:hectorcanto@gmail.com">hectorcanto@gmail.com</a>>: <div><div class="h5">> Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to develop a pipeline where I can maintain a continuous preview > while recording several files. I don't mind loosing data between chunks. > So far I've come with this ideas but I lack expertise with this elements or > I was unsuccessful so far: > > The ideas: > > 1) Use a multifilesink > 2) Use two branches with valve + encoder + muxer + filesink, shifting > between them, rebuilding them when disabled. > 3) Block the pad and rebuild the last part of the branch > > The questions for each alternative: > > 1.a Is there a way to control the "next-file" manually, an EOS to the sink > doesn't seems to work. > 1.b I had problems with the first chunk and with time-stamping, am I missing > something? > > 3.a Would the pipeline stuck? > 3.b Do I need to build the elements again or there is a way to restart them > > And finally, which alternative do you recommend? > I would like to implement (1) but I didn't found documentation or examples > to help me do it. (2) seems the easiest but also the less clean. > > Thanks in advance > ---- > Héctor Canto > > </div></div>> _______________________________________________ > gstreamer-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> > _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </blockquote></div> -- ---- Héctor Canto