Thanks Tim, Excellent answer. In my case my recording sink is a udpsink, so I doubt it'll matter that it got incomplete data. Wes -- View this message in context: http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/To-EOS-or-not-to-EOS-tp4659384p4659388.html Sent from the GStreamer-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com.