[gst-devel] totem and osssink? (long)

[Ronald Bultje]

Hi,

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> - first few buffers arrive at audiosink with timestamp 0, but audiosink
> is already beyond that point, and drops all those buffers
>
> The end result here is that the start of a song got dropped because the
> clock is running before data is flowing.
> (Correct me if I read any of the source wrong in this regard).

No. The audio only starts running when data first comes in. Dropping audio
data is wrong either way. Assume the 100% CPU use case, where data
*always* comes in too late. We *can not* drop incoming buffers. If we do,
we *know* next buffers also come in too late. Hey, where's my audio?

Ronald