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

[in7y118 at public.uni-hamburg.de]

Stupid question: Does this break length querying, because elements/applications 
assume length to be fixed once queried?
Which brings forth another thing: What currently is done via queries should 
probably be done via something like signals, because you never know when to 
query again (this holds especially for position queries, too)...

I guess I should file a bug about this...

Benjamin


Quoting David Schleef <ds at schleef.org>:

> 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...
> 
> 
> 
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