[gst-devel] What is 'streaming thread'?

wl2776 wl2776 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 12:02:01 CET 2011


Thanks.

Also, do the terms 'streaming thread' and 'streaming task' have the same
meaning? 


Tim-Philipp Müller-2 wrote:
> 
>> This term is met in many places of the GStreamer documentation, but I
>> can't
>> find its strict definition.
>> So, what is it, exactly? Or, please, point to the definition.
> 
> Any thread not created by the application, but by GStreamer. Often used
> as 'streaming thread' (in which dataflow happens) vs. 'application
> thread' (in which things like property setting/getting is usually done,
> and state changes). 
> 

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