[gst-devel] EOS only on SIGINT and not on socket error causes file created by 'filesink' element to be invalid

[Robert Krakora]

Hello All,
>
>When I execute this pipeline from the command line...
>
> gst-launch -e rtspsrc location=rtsp://192.168.1.211:8109/camera.sdp ! 
>rtpmp4vdepay ! mpeg4videoparse ! mp4mux ! filesink location=myfile
>
>...and send a SIGINT to the process I get a file that is playable because I 
>specified the '-e' which indicates that EOS on shutdown.
>
>However, if I execute the same pipeline from the command line and remove the 
>RTSP server (i.e. force a socket error) the process exits without performing an 
>EOS on shutdown.  A quick look at the code in "gst-launch.c" confirmed my 
>suspicion that EOS on shutdown is only performed on a SIGINT.  What if my 
>application has recorded valuable video data and the network goes down, does 
>this mean I have lost all of that data since the file will not be viewable due 
>to the absence of EOS on shutdown processing on anything that is not a SIGINT?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>-- 
>Rob Krakora
>Senior Software Engineer
>MessageNet Systems
>101 East Carmel Dr. Suite 105
>Carmel, IN 46032
>(317)566-1677 Ext. 206
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>
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