Help needed regarding buffering

[Wim Taymans]

On 10/23/2012 11:45 AM, Vijay Vikram wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to use queue element in my pipeline for buffering. My goal 
> is to start playback of content after some bytes are queued up.
> According to my understanding of the queue, I was trying the following
> 1. Set max-size-bytes= some bytes(for queue's max capacity)
> 2. Set min-threshold-bytes=some bytes(say 100k)
> souphttpsrc is downloading the data.
> Now I was thinking that chunks will be queued up inside queue till the 
> min-threshold(100k bytes) is reached and queue will start pushing the 
> data downstream(thats a demux) after that.
> But while testing, I realized that queue starts pushing as soon as it 
> gets the first chunk.
> Looks like my understanding of queue is not correct.
> Can someone help me out regarding this? If you can share some insight 
> or some documentation to help me do this, that would be great of you.

Don't use queue for this, the min-threshold-* is useless. Use queue2 to 
implement buffering and
check out the buffering documentation here:

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/manual/html/chapter-buffering.html

Wim


> Regards,
> Vikram
>
>
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