[gst-devel] thread-safe v. non-thread-safe API

[David Schleef]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:23:45PM +0000, Iain * wrote:
> So yeah, Marlin has say a multi-threaded pipeline, and the GUI needs
> to display a progress as it works through the pipeline, listening to
> signals and value changes. These signals need to get communicated
> somehow to the main gui thread, or it all falls to pieces.

I'm not talking about multi-threaded pipelines.

Does Marlin use threads because it needs to be multi-threaded, or
does it use threads because GStreamer forces it to?



dave...