Dynamic pipelines: how to remove sinks?

[Tal Liron]

Thanks, Tim! I have a followup question.

On 12/30/2012 04:53 PM, Tim-Philipp Müller wrote:
> What's the context here? What kind of sink is it? Perhaps it's enough 
> to just unlink it, then set it to NULL state and remove it from the 
> pipeline? Draining is only required if you need to make sure that e.g. 
> muxers finalize headers and everything gets written to disk properly etc. 
Ah, I see what you mean here. Draining *should* only matter if I'm using 
file sinks.

But ... what about network sinks? I currently support a udpsink (with an 
rtpL15pay). Would there be any harm in unlinking it and removing it 
while there's still something in its buffers?

I don't care about data loss here, I just want to avoid memory leaks, 
assertion failures, or other crashes. I'm assuming the sink elements 
know how to destroy themselves properly and release their resources, ... 
well, I'm hoping. ;)

I have another related question about the Vala binding. The example has 
this code:

if (GST_EVENT_TYPE (GST_PAD_PROBE_INFO_DATA (info)) != GST_EVENT_EOS)

There doesn't seem to be a Vala equivalent, but this is how I guessed it:

PadProbeReturn on_event(Pad pad, PadProbeInfo info) {
  var e = (Event) info.data;
  if (e.type == EventType.EOS) { ...

Am I right?