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

[Stefan Kost]

Hi,

Quoting David Schleef <ds at schleef.org>:

> 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.)
>

Good point! I just updated the fast-tagreading draft. once the work on  
that got started it would be good to do a gst-typefind alike tool,  
e.g. gst-tagextract
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/docs/design/draft-tagreading.txt?view=markup

Stefan

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