playbin2 using appsrc

[Sebastian Dröge]

On So, 2013-12-29 at 22:46 -0800, James wrote:
> >> Why are you using appsrc for this btw, what's the plan in your
> >> application? There are multiple ways how appsrc can be used, and the way
> >> implemented here is not always the most optimal one.
> 
> The reason I am using appsrc (besides the fact that I am a novice gstreamer
> user) is because
> I need to build an application that "http-gets" MPEG2 transport stream data
> in chunks(~98KB) each time
> and pushes them down the gstreamer pipeline; it's a customer requirement
> that I cannot change.
> 
> Do you know of any other alternative?

Well, not much :) Only other solution would be to write your own source
element that reads in 98kb chunks. Or I guess you could also use a
normal HTTP source and put a rndbuffersize element with min=max=98000
after it (or write your own element that accumulates 98kb before
forwarding).

-- 
Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com
Expertise, Straight from the Source
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