Is gstreamer thread heavy?

[Sankar,Aswin Pranav]

Who decides this number of threads? For example, you say that playbin has 3 threads. Why? Is the playbin plugin written that way? So the number of threads is not decided by the framework but rather by the plugin?

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Subject: Re: Is gstreamer thread heavy?

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<mailto: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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