Gstreamer and GLib Mainloop

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Fri, 2017-03-17 at 07:47 +0100, Roland Peffer wrote:
> I can confirm that  GLib mainloop is only required for the
> gst_bus_add_watch(). 
> Instead of using gst_bus_add_watch you have to poll messages from the
> the bus “on your own”.

Or integrate otherwise into any kind of event loop you'd like, for
which various APIs are available.

> On 17 Mar 2017, at 07:35, Andrew Grace <apenngrace at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Was there a point when it was required?  The GLib mainloop seems to
> be used in every code sample I've ever seen involving a playing
> pipeline (in the gstreamer app developer manual for example and
> elsewhere).

It was never required, the examples just use it for simplicity.

> Is the mainloop only needed for the bus watch API?

Yes

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