[gst-devel] Controlling the queue behaviour

[Eric Zhang]

Hi, gstreamer-devel:

    Normally, it should be no problem if you just change your gstreamer from
0.10.9 to 0.10.21. "max-size-buffers" should also work.

    So, I think you should provide more debug infos and do some tests(E.g:
put a probe before your video/audio sinks and see whether there is buffers
flow into them; Turn on debug infos on basesink and your sink elements and
see what the sinks exactly do during preroll) yourself and figure out why
the preroll can't be performed.

Eric Zhang

2008/12/28 Sameer Naik <sameer.subscriptions at damagehead.com>

> Hi,
> I have written a  gstreamer plugin that does video decoding on specialized
> hardware, and also written a videosink plugin that opens the framebuffer
> device,etc . For optimizing the entire pipeline the videosink plugin has
> the
> _pad_alloc functionality, that directly makes available the framebuffer
> memory
> to the decoder plugin, so that the output images can directly be written to
> the video memory. I would also mention, that the videosink can make
> available
> 3 such buffers (triple buffering) to the decoder, so effectively the
> decoder
> should not request for more than three buffers at the same time, in which
> case
> if it does the _pad_alloc function will not return any buffer.
> Now, if i construct my pipeline as such
>
> gst-launch filesrc location=file.mpeg ! demultiplexer name=demux !
> videodecoder
> ! queue ! videosink  demux. ! audiodecoder ! audioconvert ! queue !
> audiosink
>
> what happens is, due to the queue element (after the videodecoder), the
> part
> of the bin goes into its own thread. as a result, the videodecoder ends up
> making a lot more buffer requests to the videosink, than the videosink can
> really allocate.
> Due to this, in gstreamer version 0.10.9 i would add the queue before the
> videodecoder. like so
>
> gst-launch filesrc location=file.mpeg ! demultiplexer name=demux ! queue !
> videodecoder ! videosink  demux. ! audiodecoder ! audioconvert ! queue !
> audiosink
>
> and everything works fine.
>
> But the current version 0.10.21 does not allow me to do this, as in the
> pipeline does not PREROLL.
>
> I would like to know, whether it is possible to control how the queue
> functions so that it does not store more than 3 buffers. i tried specifying
> max-size-buffers=3 on the queue, but it did not help.
> I would also be interested in knowing any other ways this can be taken care
> of.
>
> Reagrds
> ~Sameer
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> gstreamer-devel mailing list
> gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gstreamer-devel
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/gstreamer-devel/attachments/20081229/b987ac87/attachment.htm>