[gst-devel] some queue advice

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hi Ramon,


On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 10:58, Ramón García wrote:
> I do not think that this problem can be solved without
> modifying the adder mixer so that one can add new
> streams without issuing a state change. Threads will
> not solve the problem. Even if you put part of the
> pipeline inside a thread, state change events will
> reach inside the thread.

Hm.  why do you think this can only be solved in a way that adder does
not need to issue a state change ? AFAIK it was a design choice that
pipelines cannot be modified in PLAYING state.

> For other reasons, the bin that fetches each stream of
> data from the network and decodes it should run in a
> different thread. Otherwise, a slow network connection
> would block all other connections. The locks that you
> experience means that gnomevfssrc should be fixed. It
> should implement the release_locks function. This is a
> member of the GstElementClass, so it should be set in
> the class_init(). When that function is invoked, any
> select/poll() waiting for the network should be
> interrupted.

I'm not experiencing any locks at all.  I'm reading from disk, btw.

Thanks
Thomas


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