Trouble removing a sink from a playing pipeline

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On 10/05/2011 02:15 PM, Tal Liron wrote:
>
> On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Stefan Sauer wrote:
>> On 10/02/2011 02:15 AM, Tal Liron wrote:
>>> In order to entirely remove the branch, I have to set its state to
>>> NULL. But, when the sink specifically changes to NULL, the pipeline
>>> stops playing! It is still in PLAYING state, but it just stops at the
>>> timeline.
>> When you do dynamic pipieline changes all you need to keep in mind is
>> that gstreamer does not like dataflow on unconnected pads. Thus if your
>> pipeline pushes data towards the sink, you want to do a pad_block on the
>> src-pad of the tee (for the branch you want to remove). When the block
>> callback got triggered remove the elements and release the pad.
> Thanks for the help -- the problem is not data flow, however, but state.
> In order to remove the elements, I need to set state to NULL, but if I
> do that the rest of the pipeline is affected.
>
> Is there a way to either force removal of elements, or perhaps to change
> their state to NULL without affecting the pipeline?
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Maybe start here...

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4CED51BC.6050800%40gnat.ca&forum_name=gstreamer-devel

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