[gst-devel] gst-player instability

[Colin Fox]

Thanks to all who replied (Julien, Ronald, Thomas, in7y118).

The problem I'm having with the gst-player is that it's flakey - it
works for a bit, then stops. It's not very repeatable, and it seems kind
of random how it responds. It plays the small mpegs I have, until I try
to do something like slide the time slider. Then it does all kinds of
wierd things - the sound drops out, the screen goes blue, the video
stops and starts, or stutters. In fact, the time slider is completely
useless as a control. It only works as an indicator.

Also, the player *never* plays an AVI, but it doesn't give me an error.
It just hangs, and the CPU usage goes to 100%. I can break it, but as I
said, there's no error.

When I do this:
gst-launch filesrc location="yourfile.mpg" ! spider ! xvideosink

with an AVI, I get this:
INFO (13051: 0) Initializing GStreamer Core Library version 0.6.3
INFO (13051: 0) CPU features: (0c040841) MMX
INFO (13051: 0) registry: loaded global_registry in 0.460910 seconds
          (/var/lib/cache/gstreamer-0.6/registry.xml)
GStreamer-INFO: 0 live buffer(s)
GStreamer-INFO: 0 live bufferpool(s)
GStreamer-INFO: 0 live event(s)
RUNNING pipeline


and then it just sits there at 100% cpu with no video.

The player doesn't crash such that I could track it in GDB. It just gets
flakey and does wrong things.

Help! :)
 cf

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 01:35, Julien MOUTTE wrote:
> Dear Colin,
> 
> Could you please give more details on the file that gst-player is unable
> to read ? Are they only mpeg files ?
> 
> Are those files playing fine with gst-launch with something like :
> 
> gst-launch filesrc location="yourfile.mpg" ! spider ! xvideosink
> 
> Many issues that people see in gst-player are due to buggy plugins.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 03:36, Colin Fox wrote:
> > Hi, all.
> > 
> > I'm interested in doing some development with the gstreamer libraries,
> > but it seems that my setup is incredibly unstable.
> > 
> > I'm using Gentoo, and I've got my system updated to the latest libraries
> > (gstreamer 0.6.3, gst-player 0.6.0, gst-plugins-xvideo 0.6.3,
> > gst-plugins 0.6.3, gst-editor 0.5.0)
> > 
> > Trying to use gst-player is an exercise in frustration. It crashes
> > repeatedly on small mpeg files, etc. etc. Is this to be expected at this
> > point, or is the system supposed to be more stable than this?
> > 
> > I'd also like to help debug the system, but I'm not sure where to start.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >   cf
-- 
Colin Fox <cfox at cfconsulting.ca>
CF Consulting Inc.
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