[gst-devel] BaseSrc problem!

[Stefan Kost]

Hi,

Oscar Aceña wrote:
> Hi to all!
> Before anything: great work!
>
> Well, I have a little problem with gst.BaseSrc in Python.
>
> I have made a class which inherits from BaseSrc. It reads data from
> another source, a list, which can be empty sometimes. So, when i start the
> app which uses my src, the pipe calls the do_create method of my src and
> it returns data from this list. Well, this is easy. The problem arrives 
> when the
> list gets empty. If this happens, my method returns a gst.Buffer(None) 
> (or a empty
> buffer). The pipe receives it and call another time the do_create method.
> When i have new data on the list, the do_create method sends it, but the
> pipeline acts as if no data were sent.
>
> waht i'm doing wrong?
>   
Sounds like that should derive from GstPushSrc then.

> My main target is send data to a pipeline, which it should be accepted, 
> but using
> a variable rate, I mean, If there is no data available, i expect the 
> pipeline ready when
> the data became available.
>   
Ciao
  Stefan