[gst-devel] Dropping buffers when pausing live stream

[Olivier Crête]

Hi,

If your data is video (and has keyframes), you may want to do something
smarter (like dropping old frames only when you get a new keyframe), so
you can start displaying data faster when you restart playback.

Olivier

On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 18:40 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> Hoi all,
> 
>  My application is displaying live media that comes in over http or rtsp.  
> Sometimes the stream has to be paused (because it is invisible and I don't 
> want to waste CPU cycles on decoding).  However, simply pausing the pipeline 
> will eventually disconnect the source because of overflowing socket buffers.  
> Also, when playing again, I don't want to render a second of old data.
> 
>  The solution I had in mind is to port the dropping behaviour of queue to 
> multiqueue.  Then I pause the sink elements, which makes the queues fill up 
> and triggers the dropping.  When playing again, there is still a bit of stale 
> data but it is recent stale data (and probably rendering delay will cause some 
> more data to be dropped in the near future).
> 
>  Does this sound like a good idea?  Anybody have a better idea?
> 
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
> 
-- 
Olivier Crête
olivier.crete at collabora.co.uk
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