Is gstreamer thread heavy?

[Jan Alexander Steffens]

In the simplest case, the pipeline will spawn one thread.

The more usual case (playbin) has one thread reading in the data, one
thread per decoder and one thread per output device. In your case, three
threads.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 9:11 PM test app <testacct9111 at gmail.com> wrote:

> i am new to gst. I heard it needs very high number of threads. For a
> simple playback pipeline with .mp4 with video only decode, how many threads
> does it roughly require? in general, appreciate your expert insight into
> thread heaviness of gstreamer.
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