[gst-devel] Looping playback of a streamed file.

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Hi,

I have the same trouble : I am trying to loop an mpeg2 file (local file) and
 I have the same seek trouble...


2010/11/5 Baldur Gislason <baldur at medizza.com>

> I have an application in which I read mpeg2 transport stream from a file
> and send it out on UDP.
> I'm trying to make it loop the file, so start over from the beginning of
> the file when the end is reached.
> So far I have not been successful in doing this, any suggestions?
>
> Pipeline currently looks like this: filesrc ! mpegtsdemux ! mpegtsmux !
> bufresize ! udpsink
>
> I've tried sending seek events to every element in the pipeline and they
> all either ignore the seek or break.
>         if (!gst_element_seek (tp->sink, 1.0, GST_FORMAT_TIME,
> GST_SEEK_FLAG_FLUSH,
>                          GST_SEEK_TYPE_SET, 0,
>                          GST_SEEK_TYPE_NONE, GST_CLOCK_TIME_NONE)) {
>           l_debug("Seek failed!\n");
> If I do this from the signal handler on an "end of stream" event, it will
> be too late as some of the elements will have received the EOS and shut
> down, but even if I send the seeks well before the end is reached I've not
> managed to make it do what I want.
>
> There has to be a way to do this that is cleaner than shutting down,
> deleting everything and creating a new pipeline!
>
> Baldur
>
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