Error not be thrown

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 15:41 +0800, Mohamed Salim Mohamed Ayub wrote:


> In my application I try to catch the error,by 
>     g_signal_connect (strBus, "message::error", (GCallback)
> error_received, Pipeline);
> 
> 
> IN error_received, I check for Error->domain to be GST_STREAM_ERROR
> and then check for STATUS_ERROR_MEDIA_FORMAT to stop playback.
> 
> However, even though plug-in executes  GST_ELEMENT_ERROR, my erro
> handling never enters error_received.
> 
> 
> Any hint what might be going wrong?

The "message" signal on GstBus will only be emitted if

a) you called gst_bus_add_signal_watch()

b) you're running a GLib/Gtk main loop, or iterating
   the default main context in some other way.

Cheers
 -Tim