[gst-devel] Gtype registration error

[Mattias Barthel]

Tim Müller wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 11:02 +0200, Mattias Barthel wrote:
>
>   
>> I am trying to get two of the same pipeline running in two separate 
>> threads (pthreads) in the same process.
>> I seem to have bumped into a kind of race condition.
>>     
>
>   
>> This is what I get from the prompt:
>>
>> (testlib:20311): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type 
>> `GstClock'
>> (testlib:20311): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gtype.c:3340: type id `0' is 
>> invalid
>>  (snip)
>>
>> I think this is because the two threads try too create their pipeline at 
>> the same time and Glibs hashtable of types does not reflect upon this. 
>> Or maybe there should be a mutex in the gstreamer level?
>>     
>
> It's a bug in GLib. This is fixed in GLib-2.16 as far as I know.
>
> We do try to work around this in GStreamer though, so if you run into
> issues like this, please file a bug in bugzilla so we can fix it.
>
> I've recently fixed a few of these problems in core and -base CVS, so
> you might want to upgrade.
>
> Cheers
>  -Tim
>
>
>   
I upgraded to 2.16.3 but still the problem remains.
I am using gstreamer 0.10.18, could this be an issue?

Thanks,

Mattias