[gst-devel] blocked glib idle/timeout

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On Wednesday 25 March 2009 01:18:10 Dan Taylor wrote:
> My simplest test pipeline has dvbsrc, mpegtsdemux (tried flutsdemux,
> too), and
> two filesinks (location is /dev/null).  There's a new pad callback to
> connect
> the demuxer to the filesinks, which works when the specified program
> number
> is in the stream.
>
> When I use a program number that exists in the stream, the functions
> called with g_idle_add_full() and g_timeout_add_full(), and the shorter
> forms, are called.  When the program number doesn't exist in the stream,
> the timeout is never called, and the idle function stops within a
> second.

 This may be a very stupid remark, but do you use queues in your pipeline?  If 
not, the two sinks will deadlock the main thread...

 Regards,
 Arnout

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