Help needed regarding buffering

[Wim Taymans]

On 10/23/2012 12:57 PM, Vijay Vikram wrote:
> Hi Wim,
> Thanks a lot for your prompt reply.
> I have tried this thing with queue2 too.
> The steps are mentioned below
> 1. Set max-size-bytes= 10MB(for queue's max capacity)
> 2. Set low-percent=high-percent=5 initially.
> Now I am listening to bus messages. On GST_MESSAGE_BUFFERING, when I 
> get the percent vlaue, I am always getting either 0 or 100.
That would be correct if you set the low and high-percent values to the 
same value...
You probably want to leave this to the default values..

Wim
> Is it that restrictin based on number of bytes is not correct. rather 
> we should restrict the percentage values based on time as explained in 
> the link you have shared?
> Or Is there something wrong with my understanding?
> Regards,
> Vikram
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Wim Taymans <wim.taymans at gmail.com 
> <mailto:wim.taymans at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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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