[gst-devel] Question on re-do playback with self-developed elements

[Stefan Kost]

Am 11.12.2009 00:59, schrieb Tim-Philipp Müller:
> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 23:54 +0200, Stefan Kost wrote:
>  
>>> [Weian] After playing a video, will totem de-construct the pipeline or
>>> just set the state to NULL?
>>
>> Most app throw away everything and start with a new playbin every time. Element
>> reuse need more testing.
> 
> I don't think that's true. All apps I know create a playbin(2) element
> once at startup and re-use that, setting the state to NULL or READY when
> changing between songs/videos. Totem certainly does. playbin(2) is meant
> to be reused.
> 
> However, playbin(2) will likely remove and free any demuxer/decoder
> elements it plugged for a stream (after setting them to NULL state), and
> re-create them for the next stream if needed.

Fair enough, but that was new to me. Also we definitely need unit test for it,
as apparently its not very smooth yet :/

Stefan

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