Gst Tasks

[Wim Taymans]

On 02/08/2012 01:08 PM, Neil Jones wrote:
> Can anyone help on this ?
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Neil Jones<neiljay at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> In the Core Reference Manual gst_task_join() is described as follows:
>> "... The task will automatically be stopped with this call...." Is
>> this true ?

Yes.

>>
>> should join() not wait for the task to finsh (due to someone or itself
>> calling gst_task_stop), a bit like g_thread_join() ?

It does a g_thread_join() to wait until the task function is stopped 
completely.

>>
>> Also GstTask seems rather limited, Is it possible to use g_threads
>> inside an element instead ?

You can do that but then you would need to implement the pause/resume 
yourself along with the threadpool and STREAM_STATUS messages.

Wim
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Neil
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