[gst-devel] output freezes when recording video for the 2nd time

[Daniel Drake]

On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 22:11 +0000, Aurelien Grimaud (elzz) wrote:
> tee element does not send new segment to new pad, and new_segment, is
> needed by videorate to work properly.
> In your application, when videobin is linked to tee and set to
> playing, the first buffer it receives has a timestamp of 5s. 
> videorate wants its first buffer to match new segment start time
> (which is 0 in our case, we had no new segment). So, videorate will
> duplicate the first buffer 50 times to go from 0 to 5 secs with a 10/1
> rate.
> Therefore you have a 5 seconds frozen video.
> Try patch from bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474016
> This should fix it.

Thanks for the patch. Unfortunately it doesn't fix it: the video still
remains frozen.

In this case, the video is not frozen for 5 seconds, it is frozen
indefinitely.

Daniel