[gst-devel] make the filesrc deal with files whose size is growing

[David Schleef]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:41:53AM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I needed to play a file with gstreamer while it was being ripped, and I
> noticed that the filesrc didn't properly take into account files whose
> size is growing while it is processing them. I came up with the attached
> patch to handle that. 
> The patch is quite ugly imo, so I was wondering if someone had better
> ideas to handle that.

Seems ok to me.  Adding a object property is bogus, though, since
files can always change size.  update_filelen() should probably
be called gst_filesrc_check_file_size().  Also, when seeking,
filesrc should unconditionally update the file length.



dave...