Gstreamer cleanup on crashes

Nicolas Dufresne nicolas at ndufresne.ca
Thu Mar 9 01:58:27 UTC 2017


Le mercredi 08 mars 2017 à 17:13 -0800, nikhila krishnan a écrit :
> I have written an application that uses Gstreamer for audio
> playback. 
> The application instantiates a pipeline with a uridecodebin and
> pulsesink. 
> If for some reason the application crashes, and is restarted, will
> there be any problems? 
> Are there any OS level resources that Gstreamer needs, that if not
> cleaned up correctly, will cause problems while launching the next
> time?

On Linux and any decently implemented OS, all resources should be freed
upon an application crash. In this context, Pulse Audio Daemon will
cleanup the state and free any held resources.

Nicolas
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