[Bug 733974] gstbufferpool::default_alloc_buffer does not fail if buffer allocation fails

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733974
  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | 1.4.0

--- Comment #5 from Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne at collabora.co.uk> 2014-07-30 13:18:09 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Shall we backport this one ? Was there a failing use case for you ? For the
> > context, this never happens with system allocator, as it will abort the
> > application and other uses their own buffer pool, with the own allocate method.
> 
> I am using a custom allocator which apparently failed for an unknown reason and
> I ended up hitting this path. I am not sure if anyone else will really hit this
> issue or not.
> 
> We already have a few allocators (dma buf and an egl one). If they can fail
> then I'd guess it'd be better t backport since 1.6 is definitely not in the
> near future.

Thanks, I'll look at this. For your interest, there is already a EGL allocator
part of gst-plugins-bad, and a dmabuf wrapper allocator part of
gst-plugins-base. Any intention to improve this and share the effort ?

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