[gst-devel] Problem using appsink on simple example

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 11:25 -0300, Tiago Katcipis wrote:

> If i use the filesink and DONT add the appsink to the pipe, it works
> fine. If i just add the appsink to the pipe ....it stops working, im
> not even using the appsink yet, the filesink stops to write data, the
> result of the test will be an empty file, and no error msg is sent.

This is somewhat expected. The pipeline is unlikely to preroll (go to
>=PAUSED state) if there's an unconnected sink element in it, since it
will wait for that sink to receive data, but if it's not connected the
sink will never receive any data.

Cheers
 -Tim