[gst-devel] Running gstreamer in MAC OS X -- Leopard

[Tim Müller]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 16:10 -0700, Michael Smith wrote:

> > The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation
> > functionality safely. You MUST exec().
> > Break on
> > __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__()
> > to debug.
> 
> There's an open bug about this; nobody has stepped up to write a fix for it yet.
> 
> A workaround is to set the environment variable GST_REGISTRY_FORK=no
> (the downside of that is that memory usage will be substantially
> higher if the registry needs re-scanning).

I believe CVS of core 'fixes' this by automatically not forking on OSX.

 Cheers
  -Tim