[gst-devel] Re: controlling gst-launch

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 20:13, Ronald Bultje wrote:
> Hey Joshua,
> 
> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 07:51, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:44:07PM -0700, Ronald Bultje wrote:
> > > Add SIGUSR1/SIGUSR2 as play/stop signals. Also add these to the
> > > documentation. Fixes #120065
> > > 
> > > Modified files:
> > >     tools           : gst-launch.1.in gst-launch.c
> > 
> > I guess this is better than nothing, but I would prefer the
> > ability to type "stop" or "start" on STDIN.  It isn't very
> > difficult to watch STDIN asyncronously for commands and it
> > is a lot cleaner than using signals.
> 
> Well, I didn't want it at all, but some people do... I don't care. Imo,
> if you want these things, create a nice GUI to do it, like gst-editor or
> so. I'm not the "make command line tools as powerful as possible" kinda
> guy, I prefer GUIs. ;).

Please put further changes in gst-launch-gui in gst-editor, it's ideal
for that :)

Thomas


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