Why gst_base_sink_is_too_late!

[Tim Müller]

On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 15:40 +0400, Anton Olegovich wrote:

Hi,

> Because of what can be this Logcat output:
> 
> W/GStreamer+basesink(2096): 0:20:11.970461533 0x551bcd50 
> gstbasesink.c:2789:gst_base_sink_is_too_late:<autovideosink-actual-sink-glimage> 
> warning: A lot of buffers are being dropped.
> W/GStreamer+basesink(2096): 0:20:11.970658764 0x551bcd50 
> gstbasesink.c:2789:gst_base_sink_is_too_late:<autovideosink-actual-sink-glimage> 
> warning: There may be a timestamping problem, or this computer to slow
> 
> And what does it mean?

Could you tell us more about when this happens? What's the pipeline?

Often it either means the system is too slow (e.g. decoding an 1080p
video in software on an embedded system), or there's a problem with
latency reporting in a live streaming pipeline.

Cheers
 -Tim

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