Gstreamer Segment Event Problem

[Sujata Gaddemane]

Sorry, by mistake mail was out before I completed.

Is SEEK event is the only option to handle segmented playback?

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Sujata Gaddemane <gsujata at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Sebastian.
>
> Does this mean,
> SEGMENT event is just the segment configuration information from upstream
> element to downstream elements and there is no action taken to change the
> playback position ?
> one must use SEEK event to handle
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Sebastian Dröge <sebastian at centricular.com
> > wrote:
>
>> On Mi, 2016-01-06 at 12:45 +0530, Sujata Gaddemane wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Given a video file, I am trying to play the video from a given start
>> > time to a given end time.
>> > I am trying to achieve this using Segment Event as follows:
>> >
>> > 1. Firstly, I am creating and initialising a segment.
>> > 2. Created a segment event using gst_event_new_segment()
>> > 3. Send the segment event to the pipeline using
>> > gst_element_send_event()
>> >
>> > But, The video just plays from the beginning and not from the start
>> > time.
>> > The segment event does not have an effect on the playback eventhough
>> > the event is reaching the sink element of the pipeline (verified by
>> > gst debug messages).
>> > [...]
>> > If I use, SEEK event it works fine, but Segment event does not.  How
>> > does SEGMENT event differ from SEEK event?
>>
>> SEEK is for requesting upstream of a pipeline to go to a different
>> stream time and/or possible change the playback rate. SEGMENT is for
>> upstream to tell downstream about the configured segment, which is
>> including all the timing information needed for synchronization.
>>
>> What you want here is the SEEK event.
>>
>> --
>> Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · http://www.centricular.com
>>
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>
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Sujata
>



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Regards,
Sujata
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