Is gstreamer thread heavy?

[Nicolas Dufresne]

Le 16 juin 2016 5:36 PM, "Aswin Pranav" <aswin2pranav at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> 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!

Threads are named after the element that own it. All element have unique
names but default. As of my experience, it show up perfectly well in perf.

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> On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 at 19:33 Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas at ndufresne.ca>
wrote:
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>> > Le 2016-06-15 16:03, "Sankar,Aswin Pranav" <apsankar at ufl.edu> a écrit :
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>> > > 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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>> 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.
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>> Nicolas
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>> > > From: gstreamer-devel <gstreamer-devel-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org>
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.
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>> > > 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.
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>> > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 9:11 PM test app <testacct9111 at gmail.com>
wrote:
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>> > >> 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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