Push a buffer to appsrc with private data.

[Nicolas Dufresne]

Le mar. 30 avr. 2019 15 h 55, Peter Maersk-Moller <pmaersk at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Hi.
>
> I need to push a buffer with private data (otherwise allocated and later
> to be reused) to appsrc and to be notified, when the buffer has been read
> and not used by the pipeline that appsrc sources to.
>
> Is the correct method to use gst_new_buffer_wrapped_full() to get the
> buffer with the buffer's data pointer set to the private data and to get a
> callback to the notify function I specify, when the buffer has been
> read/used by the pipeline (and subsequently destroyed)?
>
> Can I safely assume that the private data are I provided with the call is
> NOT freed, when the buffer is destroyed by the pipeline (automatically)?
>

If you don't free it in the destroy callback, nothing else will free it.


> Since the private data is a video frame that needs to be encoded by the
> pipeline (via the appsrc), is it thhen sufficiently to set the PTS for the
> buffer to lets say 0 for the first frame (not setting the DTS) , and
> something higher for next etc? The answer may be encoder specific, so
> assume x264enc.
>

In general starting at 0 matches the default segment. Though, if it's live,
you likely want to pick time from a clock or use do-timestamp.


> And is it okay to NOT set the duration for the buffer since I don't
> necessarily know the duration when pushing the buffer to appsrc, since at
> the time of pushing, I may not yet have the next frame and timestamp ready?
>

It's fine to leave duration unset when unknown.


> Thanks in advance.
> Peter MM
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