Mysterious issue with gst_buffer_make_writable.

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Mo, 2015-04-20 at 11:29 -0400, Stirling Westrup wrote:
> Right now we have a piece of code in a transformation element where we call
> 
> buffer = gst_buffer_make_writable(buffer);
> 
> Where that line appears to corrupt something such that, after passing on
> the buffer, when it eventually gets used and unrefed, we get an assertion
> error that its not a valid buffer.
> 
> However, if we replace that line with
> 
> if( !gst_buffer_is_writable(buffer) )
>  GST_ERROR("Oh Noes!");
> 
> then everything works fine. Any idea what could be going on?

Do you have a testcase for reproducing this? Only thing I can think of
is that you don't actually own a reference to that buffer there.

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Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · http://www.centricular.com
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