[gst-devel] sending a SIGUSR1 (quit) signal to a gstreamer pipeline

[David Schleef]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 03:08:28PM -0500, Tanim Islam wrote:
> How would I go about sending a SIGUSR1 signal to 
> a gstreamer pipeline in a script (say, bash)? I 
> want to extract the tags from a music file 
> without having to manually type in ^C.

gst-launch is not intended to be a general purpose scripting utility.
You'll get much better results by either writing your script in python
and using pygst, or by writing a custom command-line utility for
extracting tags.  (Such a custom utility would be a useful inclusion
in GStreamer.)



dave...