AW: Pipeline freeze when audio source is ended

Fri Aug 11 17:54:00 UTC 2017

Out of curiosity, if you replace the fakesrc with an appsrc does it at 
least link?  Also I am assuming you are using 
gst_element_get_request_pad to get the pads on the sink side of the 
concat element.  Also make sure that whatever source you use has the 
same caps as the audio source you were using before to avoid 
complications.  Otherwise I am not sure, but it sounds like you are on 
the right track.  Connecting the silence source in the pad_added 
callback should be the way to go.

Cheers,
Michael.

On 8/11/2017 3:53 AM, stic at free.fr wrote:
> Thanks,
> I am now trying to use the "concat" element which seems to be perfect for what I would like to do (the idea is quite similar to use an inputSelector) but I am now facing the following problem:
> I need to use it with a uridecodebin element and a secondary audio source that could be a fakesrc.
> But the uridecodebin needs to be the 1st source, so I think I need to link the 2nd source from the pad-added signal from uridecodebin, only after uridecodebin has been linked.
> But if I do so I have errors from the 2nd source saying "pad not activated yet" and "streaming stopped, reason not-linked (-1)"
>
> What should I do to be able to link concat with uridecodebin in 1st position ?
>
> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Keith Thornton" <keith.thornton at zeiss.com>
> À: "Discussion of the development of and with GStreamer" <gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Envoyé: Jeudi 10 Août 2017 14:52:59
> Objet: AW: Pipeline freeze when audio source is ended
>
> Hi, I have personally no expierience with this but have you tried using an inputSelector with both your source and faesrc connected and then switching from one to the other?
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: gstreamer-devel [mailto:gstreamer-devel-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] Im Auftrag von stic at free.fr
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. August 2017 13:53
> An: Discussion of the development of and with GStreamer <gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Betreff: Re: Pipeline freeze when audio source is ended
>
> Thanks a lot Michael for your answer.
> This is also something I tried but I failed to get it working.
> As you already described I tried to use a blocking probe to replace the audio source (a uridecodebin) by a fakesrc in order to keep having audio buffers in the pipeline.
> I also had to post a GstMessage on the bus to make the removal of the audio source and replacement by fakesrc on the main thread (message callback).
> After your message I tried again hard but I still fail...
>
> Do you think I can use fakesrc to send empty audio buffer on the pipeline to replace the audio source, or should I use something else ?
>
> I am also wondering when the blocking pad should be unblocked ? Should it be unblocked from the message callback (the callback function receiving the GstMessage) ?
> If so how could this be done ?
>
> Here is the code I am using for blocking pad and message callback function:
>
> /*** callback function receiving the GstMessage to replace the audio source ***/
> /* Retrieve application custom messages from the bus */ static void application_cb (GstBus *bus, GstMessage *msg, CustomData *data) {
>      // look for object coming from the audio source only
>      if (GST_MESSAGE_SRC (msg) == GST_OBJECT (data->asource) && gst_message_has_name (msg, "asourceReplace")) {
>          // application message from audio source, the message means the elements received EOS and needs to be replaced
>
>          // stop element to remove
>          gst_element_set_state (data->asource, GST_STATE_NULL);
>          // remove unlinks automatically
>          GST_DEBUG_OBJECT (data->pipeline, "removing %" GST_PTR_FORMAT, data->asource);
>          gst_bin_remove (GST_BIN (data->pipeline), data->asource);
>          // add a new fakesink
>          data->asource = gst_element_factory_make ("fakesrc", "asource");
>          if (G_IS_OBJECT(data->asource)) g_object_set (G_OBJECT (data->asource), "is-live", TRUE, NULL);
>          gst_bin_add (GST_BIN (data->pipeline), data->asource);
>          // link fakesink
>          gst_element_link (data->asource, data->audioSourceQueue);
>
>          gst_element_sync_state_with_parent (data->asource);
>      }
> }
>
> /*** Callback function from blocking probe ***/ static GstPadProbeReturn audio_source_event_probe_cb (GstPad * pad, GstPadProbeInfo * info, gpointer user_data) {
>      CustomData *data = (CustomData *)user_data;
>
>      if (GST_EVENT_TYPE (GST_PAD_PROBE_INFO_DATA (info)) != GST_EVENT_EOS)
>          return GST_PAD_PROBE_PASS;
>
>      gst_pad_remove_probe (pad, GST_PAD_PROBE_INFO_ID (info));
>
>      // we need to remove asource and replace it, this can only be done asynchronously, so we post a message on the bus for it
>      GstBus *bus = gst_element_get_bus (data->pipeline);
>      if (GST_IS_BUS(bus)) {
>          gst_bus_post(bus, gst_message_new_application(GST_OBJECT(data->asource), gst_structure_new_empty("asourceReplace")));
>          gst_object_unref(bus);
>      }
>
>      return GST_PAD_PROBE_DROP; // unblock from here or can it be done from application_cb ?
> }
>
>
> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Michael MacIntosh" <mmacintosh at linear-systems.com>
> À: gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Envoyé: Mercredi 9 Août 2017 21:19:24
> Objet: Re: Pipeline freeze when audio source is ended
>
> Hey,
>
> If you have an audio and a video source being fed into a muxer, and assuming you can't get around the source producing the EOS, then you probably want to drop the EOS signal, and use a blocking probe to disconnect the old source and replace it with a source that would produce "silence", because most video file formats expect both streams to be the same length.
>
> But the problem you are running into is the muxer will block your video pipeline because it is waiting for audio data, you need to keep the audio data going if you want it to be unblocked.  The muxer is too smart to assume no data is silence.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael.
>
>
> On 8/9/2017 7:44 AM, stic at free.fr wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have a simple pipeline running with an audio source and video source, muxed together into a tcpserversink.
>> The problem I have is that the pipeline freeze once the audio source is ended, but I would like it to continue even is there is no audio anymore in the pipeline.
>> What should I do in such case ?
>> I tried to drop the EOS signal arriving on the src pad of the audio source bin but it doesn't seem to change anything.
>> Could someone describe what should be done in such case ?
>> That would really help me, thank you very much in advance !
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