[gst-devel] GMainLoop in a separate thread

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 22:26 -0500, Oscar Östlund wrote:

Hi,

(please don't start a new thread as reply to another message.)

> I would like to know if it is possible to put the GMainLoop in a  
> separate thread in order to "forget" about it ?
> 
> I am writing an application that has it own loop mecanism and I would  
> prefer not having to use the GMainLoop...
> 
> Or should I add a new source to my gmainloop and run everything else  
> from there ??

You don't have to use a GMainLoop at all. You just need to make sure you
handle messages on the pipeline bus somehow. You can do this by
regularly calling gst_bus_pop() if you like. The GSource/GMainLoop
integration stuff is just a bonus for Gtk+/GUI applications.

Cheers
 -Tim