[gst-devel] sink element with multiple sink pads

[Gregory McGarry]

I'm working on a plugin which wraps a library.  The library requires roughly synchronised audio and/or video frames.

Since GstBaseSink only has one sink pad, I need to develop my own sink class.

What is the best way to handle this problem?  Here are the approaches I have tried:

1) custom sink element with a collection of request sink pads
- seems to deadlock (thread waits for other pads to receive data?)

- add queues to the pipeline - is the pipeline now in pull mode?

- must support push and pull mode, although there is no time sensitivity in application?


2) custom sink element that provides explicit _chain() handlers on the pads
- lots of locking problems

- still have problem blocking streams until all stream info is available to initialise the library


3) element derived from GstBin which contains audio and video sink elements
- how to create internal elements without registering with factory?

- difficulty aggregating streams info to initialise library

- overly complicated


Does a sink element exist which has multiple sink pads?  I couldn't find one.

Thanks for any advice.



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