Have you checked "async" property? That can make basesink work synchronously. (no preroll) <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gstreamer-libs/html/GstBaseSink.html#GstBaseSink--async">http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gstreamer-libs/html/GstBaseSink.html#GstBaseSink--async</a> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:24 PM Arjen Veenhuizen <<a href="mailto:arjen.veenhuizen@tno.nl">arjen.veenhuizen@tno.nl</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am not really familiar with playbin and its "video-sink" property, but I would expect that a workflow like this should work: 0. since the pipeline is in PAUSED state, I don't think you have to block any pads 1. unlink sink pad of fakesink 2. remove fakesink from pipeline 3. add xvimagesink element to pipeline 4. connect sink pad of xvimagesink element 5. set to pipeline to PLAYING state -- View this message in context: <a href="http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/Ecplicitly-prerolling-pipelines-tp4673106p4673109.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/Ecplicitly-prerolling-pipelines-tp4673106p4673109.html</a> Sent from the GStreamer-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </blockquote></div>