[gst-devel] 2 playbins in a window

[Wim Taymans]

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 12:11 +0200, Julien GILLES wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i am trying to play two videos in a window, using the playbin plugin.
> I use an ximagesink as video-sink, and set overlay on a
> GtkDrawingArea.
> 
> With a single playbin everything is fine, but if I try to create 2
> playbins, strange things occurs : sometimes the application crashes,
> sometime the application launches, but the two videos remains black
> and there is a lot of GStreamer error on the standard output,
> sometimes the two videos runs, but after 2 seconds one of them hangs.

Can you paste those errors here? Maybe it's the type registration in
glib?

Wim

> 
> Well, it seems to me that there is some global variables that prevents
> the 2 instances to live together ; II wonder if  the playbin plugin is
> guilty, or if the gstreamer framework allows twoo pipelines in the
> same application...
>