AW: is eos on shutdown needed when stopping a pipeline

[Olivier Crête]

Hi,

For PS files you need to write the header, so you need to send the EOS event to the pipeline then wait for the EOS message to be sent back. This is what gst-launch -e does.

Olivier

On December 13, 2017 10:35:52 AM EST, philippe renon <philippe_renon at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>Ok. So just stopping a pipeline is not always enough when recording a
>video to file.
>We have a pipeline as such:
>
>dx9screencapsrc monitor=0 cursor=true ! tee name=t
>    t. ! queue ! timeoverlay ! autovideosink
>    t. ! queue ! videoconvert ! x264enc tune=zerolatency
>tune=zerolatency bitrate=498 ! mpegpsmux ! filesink
>location=D:\capture.mpg
>The produced capture.mpg file is readable with VLC but not with Windows
>Media Player.I am trying to understand why WMP can't play it. 
>
>Le Mercredi 13 décembre 2017 9h50, "Thornton, Keith"
><keith.thornton at zeiss.com> a écrit :
> 
>
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>{}#yiv7462131277 Hi, Eos is necessary for instance when you are writing
>to an mp4 container. Without the eos, the mov block will not be written
>(in the normal case) and the file will be unplayable    Von:
>gstreamer-devel
>[mailto:gstreamer-devel-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org]Im Auftrag von
>philippe renon
>Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Dezember 2017 09:32
>An: gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
>Betreff: is eos on shutdown needed when stopping a pipeline    Hi,   
>gst-launch has an eos on shutdown option to make sure that, amongst
>other cases, video captured to file are properly finalized.    My
>question is whether this eos is also needed when programatically
>stopping a pipeline ? Will a stop do the eos or is it the
>responsibility of the application to send that eos in any case ?   
>Philippe.    _______________________________________________
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Olivier Crête
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