[gst-devel] Direct Show video sink expose event support

[Andoni Morales]

2009/4/22 Michael Smith <msmith at xiph.org>:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Andoni Morales <ylatuya at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to add frame stepping support to my video player and I'm
>> having some troubles on Windows using the directshowvideosink.
>>
>> On linux, even with the pipeline in paused state, when I seek to the
>> next frame, this one is drawn without even calling the
>> gst_x_overlay_expose() method.
>>
>> Instead on Windows I need to set the the pipeline into playing state
>> before sending the seek event and then reset the pipeline to paused
>> state to get the next frame displayed, which doesn't always work  as
>> some times the seek is done before returning to the paused state.
>>
>> Why, using the Direct Show video sink, the current frame isn't not
>> drawn when the pipeline is in paused state?
>
> I guess it's a bug - please report it in bugzilla.

I have switched to "glimagesink", and it solves the problem!
It also reduces considerably the CPU usage,from 7% playing an mpeg2
encoded video, to almost 0%...
Is it stable enough to use for  production purpose?

Andoni


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> Mike
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