[Bug 694405] souphttpsrc efficiency is too low

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694405
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-good | 0.11.x

Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEEDINFO
                 CC|                            |t.i.m at zen.co.uk

--- Comment #2 from Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> 2013-02-22 14:08:35 UTC ---
You should not be using GStreamer 0.11.x for anything any more. It was a
short-lived development branch with unstable API, before it was made stable and
turned into 1.0.0. You should be using and testing GStreamer 1.x instead.

I'm not sure why souphttpsrc would perform so badly, have you profiled it to
see where it takes up cycles? (Maybe some unnecessary memcpy()s, or unaligned
memcpy()s?)

Many people are playing HD video over http on embedded devices just fine, so
it's unlikely to be a general problem.

You could write your own http source plugin based on libcurl and compare the
performance (I know others who have done that, but don't know if the code is
available anywhere).

Setting to NEEDINFO for re-testing with 1.x and profiling results.

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