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

[Jan Schmidt]

Stefan Kost wrote:
> 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
>
>   

Maybe like the read-metadata example in core, but with a more obvious name?

J.