[Bug 787922] splitmuxsink: add a "split at running time" action signal

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787922

--- Comment #8 from Vivia Nikolaidou <vivia at ahiru.eu> ---
(In reply to Tim-Philipp Müller from comment #5)
> And how would the user/application know when to emit this action signal? pad
> probes etc? "not our problem"?

I'd go with "not our problem". :) The user might be monitoring the progress
somehow, e.g. progressreport or some other element or ... etc.

> I'm thinking of the case where the input is not live, so time might advance
> fairly quickly, in which case there's a race between the streaming threads
> and the app thread.

I'd assume that the user is at least vaguely aware of how fast things are
progressing.

> Wonder if we can use/abuse GstController here in some way :)

I can't see what you're thinking about, please elaborate? :)

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