Help needed regarding buffering

Vijay Vikram vikram.kvijay at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 05:37:10 PDT 2012


Hi Wim,
As I have mentioned in my previous emails, after handling buffering
messages I am always getting either 0% or 100% from *
gst_message_parse_buffering*.

I would like to understand how queue sets its low and high watermark.

As I have mentioned in my previous mail, my queue has  "max-size-bytes" set
to 10MB.
And by default low-percent=10 and high-percent=99.


So does that mean that the data will be pushed out of the queue when queue
has 1MB data queued i.e. to say
is low watermark = 1MB,
and high watermark = 9.9MB

As explained in the documentation, a BUFFERING message with 100% will be
posted only when high watermark is reached. But as I have already told
queue pushes data down stream as soon as first chunk(about 1KB) is queued
up.

I am sure I am missing some minute details of the queue.

Regards,
Vikram

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Wim Taymans <wim.taymans at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/30/2012 07:14 AM, Vijay Vikram wrote:
>
>> Hi ,
>> Thanks for your response to my queries but my prob still remains in the
>> same state.
>> I would restate my issue first.
>> I have a pipeline which has the following elements in the same sequence
>> as mentioned below
>> httpsrc->queue2->demux
>> For queue, my code snippet looks like this-
>> GstElement *queue = gst_element_factory_make( "queue2", "data" );
>> g_object_set (G_OBJECT (queue ), "max-size-bytes", 10MB,
>> "max-size-time", 0, "max-size-buffers", 0, "use-buffering", true, NULL);
>> httpsrc pushes data in chunks. I am expecting the queue to hold the data
>> chunks till 1MB(10 percent of the max size) is filled. But what i see is
>> , queue pushes data to the demux as soon as it gets the first chunk.
>> I tried using "temp-location" property, but in that case data is always
>> pushed to the file specified in the "temp-location", and it never comes
>> to the queue.
>> Please suggest (if possible with code snippet) how to achieve it.
>> Please correct me if I am going wrong with my pipe itself.
>>
>
> You need to watch for buffering messages and keep the pipeline paused
> while buffering. This is explained here:
>
> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.**org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/**
> manual/html/chapter-buffering.**html<http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/manual/html/chapter-buffering.html>
>
> Wim
>
> Regards,
>> Vikram
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Bernhard Graaf <bernhard.graaf at gmx.de
>> <mailto:bernhard.graaf at gmx.de>**> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Vikram,____
>>
>>     __ __
>>
>>
>>     I’ve implemented the buffer with setting all max values (bytes,
>>     frames and time) and set only the min value for time. It’s runs fine
>>     for me.____
>>
>>     __ __
>>
>>     Regards____
>>
>>     Bernhard____
>>
>>     __ __
>>
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>> *Im Auftrag von *Vijay Vikram
>>     *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2012 12:58
>>     *An:* Discussion of the development of and with GStreamer
>>     *Betreff:* Re: Help needed regarding buffering____
>>
>>     __ __
>>
>>     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. ____
>>
>>     ____
>>
>>
>>     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<http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/manual/html/chapter-buffering.html>
>>
>>     Wim
>>
>>     ____
>>
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Vikram
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