[gst-devel] Shutting down a substream

[Wim Taymans]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 16:50 -0700, Steve Fink wrote:
> I have an element with multiple src pads, all of which go into an
> adder. What is the proper way to shut down the individual streams
> going through those pads without dropping out of PLAYING?
> 
> Each pad has its own task, and each has some amount of data to send
> out. Then each posts an EOS. But the task is evidently not halted by
> the processing of that EOS, because the task's function is called
> repeatedly after the EOS has been sent. I can't call
> activate_push(FALSE) from within the task function, because that
> results in the thread trying to join with itself. I'm assuming
> gst_pad_set_active(FALSE) would be the same.
> 
> I suppose I should go back and read through all the design docs again,
> but I'm hoping somebody here can help. Am I not passing through some
> event or something?

gst_pad_pause_task() is probably what you are looking for. As soon as
the source pushed EOS, call this function and the task function will not
be called again until somebody does gst_pad_start_task().

Wim

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