Getting frames in PAUSED mode and stepping

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Di, 2016-07-05 at 08:17 +0000, Henning Riis wrote:
> I decided I didn’t understand what stepping is about, and I found the
> preroll-handoff signal on the fake-sink, which pretty much does what
> I need.
>  
> Using this I will usually get decoded frame data on my sink after I
> either initially preroll or after the prerolls when I do a seek.
>  
> However, I have an mp4 file on my SSD disk that whenever I do my
> initial preroll (I set the uri and put the pipeline in PAUSED mode) I
> will not get the preroll signal.
>  
> Is there any reasonable explanation to why I sometimes don’t get the
> preroll signal? Is this to be expected on some streams for some
> reason?

It should always happen when pre-rolling. Is your pipeline not pre-
rolling with that file?

It would be useful to have more details about the player, access to the
file in question and debug logs.

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