How to do lengthy processing in an element

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 09:50 +0000, philippe renon wrote:
> Answering my own question : gst_element_async_call() seems to fit the
> bill.

That's more for one-shot, simple tasks that don't take are not
continuously running. Like if you have to do some action on your
element from a non-streaming thread.

For long-running tasks that are just the element processing, you should
consider starting a new thread.

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