udpsrc input failover

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Fr, 2014-05-09 at 15:01 -0700, haris wrote:
> Thank you for these good pointers.
> 
> I certainly agree the best option would be to have only 1 input running 
> (receiving) all the time and activate the other first on failure. If I 
> want to switch back to "primary" udpsrc after a failover to "backup" 
> udpsrc, how would you suggest to (re)check if the "primary" udpsrc is 
> again receiving correctly? The meaning is to avoid trying to switch back 
> until the primary is actually confirmed to have recovered.

You could have the primary udpsrc running in the background and
connected to e.g. a fakesink, or appsink and check with a pad probe (or
the appsink signal) if data is arriving there.

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