Freezing the output of as src element

[Eric Trousset]

Hi Seb,

Actually I was doing something wrong. I forgot to unblock the thread while I was trying to delete the pipeline. So everything is fine, I can see my source's thread ok

Thx,
Eric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastian Dröge [mailto:sebastian at centricular.com]
> Sent: vendredi 22 novembre 2013 21:15
> To: Discussion of the development of and with GStreamer
> Subject: Re: Freezing the output of as src element
> 
> On Fr, 2013-11-22 at 10:05 +0100, Eric Trousset wrote:
> > Hi
> > I am currently writing a source element that needs to output a buffer only
> when a event is triggered, but for now the create function is called in loop,
> and if I wait for my event in it, my application's run loop is blocked to.
> >
> > I tried to figure out how the imagefreeze plugin works but couldn't manage
> to understand how the pas task is working.
> >
> > Can someone give me some hints on how to make the create function
> blocking until I get an event (I have a wait function for this event).
> 
> You should be able to just block in the create function. Network sources are
> doing that for example.
> 
> What exactly is the backtrace of all threads when you try to do that and it
> locks up your application too?
> 
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