matroska and filesink

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Fr, 2014-02-14 at 14:37 +1000, Dylan Broome wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a stream that I am recording a h264 stream into a matroska
> container. I want to be able to have the ability to stop the pipeline and
> restart it at a later time have it append to the end of the old stream. Ive
> tried using filesink append=true. While this appends to the end of the file
> it seems to confuse the hell out of matroska during playback (vlc etc seem
> to only see the last recorded stream)

With Matroska not so much, unless you keep the "matroskamux ! filesink"
part of the pipeline running and just pass more data there at a later
time. I'm not aware of any software supporting concatenated Matroska
files, even if the specification mentions that.

You'll probably have more success with formats like Ogg.

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