[gst-devel] What's wrong with the following pipeline

[Tim Müller]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 08:01 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote:

> I'm fiddling around with gstreamer and  the following pipeline does not play
> 
> gst-launch videotestsrc ! tee .src0 ! gconfvideosink tee0. ! fakesink
> 
> What am I doing wrong here?

You need a queue for each downstream branch of a tee element, otherwise
the streaming thread will block in the first sink when it is prerolled
with the first buffer, and no data will ever reach the second sink, so
the pipeline can never change to PAUSED state.

 Cheers
 -Tim