Fakesink crash on mac

Sebastian Dröge sebastian at centricular.com
Fri Jun 17 13:11:38 UTC 2016


On Fr, 2016-06-17 at 13:06 +0000, Henning Riis wrote:
> I have an app that uses fakesink to access pixel data from video.
>  
> This works fine on windows. When running on mac I will get a
> segmentation fault.
>  
> Further debugging the problem seems to me to indicate that as soon as
> I add a fakesink as the sink property on playbin, the process will
> crash soon after setting pipeline to playing state, even if no
> signals are connected on the fakesink.
>  
> Anyone know anything about this? Is using fakesink like this not
> recommended practice?

There's nothing wrong with using a fakesink there. But you most likely
want to use sync=true on the fakesink, which should be unrelated to
your problem.

How does it crash? Please get a backtrace and provide more information.

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