Listening on EOS events for GstBin

[Tim Müller]

On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 02:51 -0800, enienws wrote:

Hi,

> I have tried too many different ways to accomplish specified tast without
> any success. This is why, I am responding you late.
> 
> Anyway, you can find some major different ways I have tried with their
> problems:
> 
> 1. I have added a source pad(ghostpad) to listen for EOS events. I have sent
> the EOS event but added probes to bin's source pad cannot sense the event. 
> 
> 2. I have experimented to send an EOS event to muxer element from its sink
> pad and tried to sense EOS event coming through that element's source pad.
> EOS event was sensed successfully. This means that, my mechanism isn't
> wrong. 
> 
> 3. I have added a source pad(ghostpad, without any target) to filesink and
> added another source pad(ghostpad, created using filesink's ghostpad) to bin
> and sent an EOS event from bin's sink pad. This way wasn't work too.
> 
> 4. I have checked for DEBUG messages on command line in order to see whether
> elements inside bin (muxer and filesink) get the EOS messages correctly but
> I haven't seen any DEBUG messages related to EOS events passing through
> elements. Since I couldn't see any special DEBUG messages I have tried to
> not send EOS events. In this case pipeline continued to run normally and in
> other case where EOS events sent, data record on filesink stops. By this
> experiment, I think EOS events processed correctly but keeping in my mind
> that not seeing EOS DEBUG messages is a strange thing.
> 
> 5. In another thread, one suggests to use message-forward property of bin
> element in order to immediately process EOS events coming from sink element
> passing through bin element. I have achieved to process this EOS event in
> bus callback. But after this, neither deleting and re-creating of a bin
> element wih muxer and filesink elements is not worked.  

What exactly does not work? It seems to work fine for me with the
following code:

http://people.freedesktop.org/~tpm/code/test-backlog-recording-h264.c

Cheers
 -Tim

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Tim Müller, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com