[gst-devel] bug?

[Jorn Baayen]

Ok, so it was a problem on my side after all - a silly deadlock :) i
hope gobject 3.0 will be threadsafe ;)

Sorry :)

Cheers
Jorn

On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 18:12, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 08:57, Arik Devens wrote:
> > > If the mixer catches the new eos signal from the main thread it
> > > disconnects the stream and the mixer, and a new stream is dragged in
> > > and hooked up. So far so good, scheduler dumps, everything looks
> > > alright. But when i try to set the state to GST_STATE_PLAYING again (i
> > > set it to NULL before fiddling with the stream, i tried everything,
> > > PAUSED, STOPPED ..), it just locks up right there in the
> > > gst_element_set_state. This all happens from the main thread.
> > > 
> > > I spent the last three days playing with this, and I really dont see how
> > > it could be a bug in monkeymedia itself ... 
> > 
> > not that it helps at all but afaik this is a _very_ old bug. if you
> > are using the spider it's because it doesn't handle new
> > streams. basically gstreamer doesn't handle setting the location on
> > the pipeline to a new stream and playing again afaik. this is why in
> > gst-player we NULL out the entire pipeline and recreate it when we
> > switch to a new song. need to be fixed :-)
> 
> Nope, this is not the problem. For every different file a new
> MonkeyMediaStream (containing the source and spider elements) is
> created, and the old one is disposed. The only bit that is persistent is
> the MonkeyMediaMixer, but this is just a GstThread with volume and
> audiosink elements. (of which the volume element is hooked up to the 
> current MonkeyMediaStream).
> 
> Cheers
> Jorn
> 
> 
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