[gst-devel] Multiple pipelines sharing audio source

[Tim Crews]

Hello:

I am developing a digital video recorder application that supports the 
simultaneous recording of two video streams.  The catch is, both video 
streams share a single audio source.

I have researched on-line quite a bit, and I haven't been able to find a 
way to do this.  I know about the "tee" element, but as I understand it, 
this is used for splitting a source between multiple elements in the 
same pipeline. 

So my question is: Is there a way to share a single alsasrc audio source 
between two independent GStreamer pipelines?

I could be wrong, but I think that I must have two independent GStreamer 
pipelines to support two recording video streams.  Each video stream is 
independently started/stopped/paused.  Each video stream is recorded to 
a separate video file.  Every time a video stream is stopped and 
restarted, I am required to start recording to a new output filename.  
All of these constraints have lead me to an architecture of two 
independent recording pipelines.   If there is a way to accomplish these 
requirements with a single pipeline, that would also solve my problem, 
since I could internally "tee" my audio source within that single pipeline.

Thank you in advance for any advice you can provide.

Tim Crews