gstreamer pipeline creation fails - in case of concurrent initialization

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Fr, 2016-05-13 at 06:00 -0700, pawan.ec wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> i am trying to initialize two gst pipeline concurrently 
> 1. to play the webm files
> 2. to play the png images
> 
> When i am trying to create the pipeline, one of them start the process of
> init (like does gst_init_check(), and then proceed with pipeline creation)
> at the same time other comes for init and it fails.
> while other continue to initialize and properly created.

gst_init() and gst_init_check() are not thread-safe. Only call it once
at the same time, or even better only call it once at all.

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