[gst-devel] Any ways to add/remove branches to/from a running pipeline

[Shiping]

Thanks Aurelien for your suggestion, and many thanks to all the answers
posted here.  I really appreciated.  This makes me feel I am not alone,
there are still many experts out there willing to provide help. :-)

I tried the method, and here are the results:

First let me put my pipeline here:

video source -> tee -> record bin
                             -> preview bin
                             -> stream bin

I tried to add preview bin when recode bin was running, first I blocked the
tee->src to preview bin, BUT it stopped the whole pipeline, including record
bin.  I tried several times, but could not figure out why, and no error
messages printed out when I set debug level to 3.

Then I tried adding preview bin directly to running pipeline, it worked
unexpectedly.  I do not know why it worked, it should not according the
documents you pointed.  Removing preview bin from running pipeline was also
working. 

Then when I tried to add stream bin, it became more difficult.  I tried many
methods - blocking, unblocking, directly adding to running pipeline, etc. 
None of them worked, and the most problems were like this:

<udpsink0> warning: Internal data flow problem.
WARN     basesink gstbasesink.c:3279:gst_base_sink_chain_unlocked:<udpsink0>
warning: Received buffer without a new-segment. Assuming timestamps start
from 0.
INFO        GST_ERROR_SYSTEM
gstelement.c:1763:gst_element_message_full:<udpsink0> posting message:
Internal data flow problem.
INFO        GST_ERROR_SYSTEM
gstelement.c:1786:gst_element_message_full:<udpsink0> posted warning
message: Internal data flow problem.

So I am  technically stuck here for a couple of days now.

Could you guys please shad a light on me?

Many thanks

Shiping


Aurelien Grimaud (elzz) wrote:
> 
> Le 07/10/2009 23:14, Shiping a écrit :
>> Hi, there:
>>
>> I am trying to record live video, so a pipeline is setup to record video
>> continuously.
>>
>> And during this process, I would like to preview the video from source. 
>> So
>> I add a tee to the recording pipeline and branch out for previewing. 
>> When
>> preview stopped, the branch was removed from the pipeline.
>>
>> I tried hard not to pause recording pipeline, but got all kinds of errors
>> and unstable recording.  Currently all I can do is pause recording,
>> inset/remove branch, and restart the whole pipeline.
>>
>> Of cause, I lost some frames in above process.
>>
>> My question is:  Is there a way to do it without pausing the recording?
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Shiping
>>    
> Hi,
> 
> You should read 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/tree/docs/design/part-block.txt
> Dynamically changing a PLAYING pipeline should be done with pad block to 
> prevent any error.
> Block your tee sink pad, link/unlink your preview branch, unblock.
> 
> Aurelien
> 
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