Is gstreamer thread heavy?

[Aswin Pranav]

Thanks. If I am using a profiler to profile these threads, is there any way
I can manually give names to these threads? Many threads in the profiler
report simply don't have a name!

On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 at 19:33 Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas at ndufresne.ca> wrote:

>
> > Le 2016-06-15 16:03, "Sankar,Aswin Pranav" <apsankar at ufl.edu> a écrit :
> > >
> > > 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?
> >
>
> The number of threads depend on the type of element used. All source
> elements that runs in push mode host a thread. All demuxer that pulls from
> sources will run a thread, all queues will introduce a thread.
> Additionally, external libraries may also add a threads for parallel
> processing, along with live mixers. The number of thread will entirely
> depend on the pipeline the playbin need to construct,and the depends on
> what is going to be played. Often, playing from local files require as low
> as 3-4 threads.
>
> Nicolas
>
>
> >
> > >
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> on behalf of Jan Alexander Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 5:44:55 PM
> > > To: Discussion of the development of and with GStreamer
> > > 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>
> 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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