video freezing on the screen but gstreamer still running

[Nicolas Dufresne]

Le mercredi 08 janvier 2020 à 15:15 -0600, gilmotta a écrit :
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I am writing a Java app for Imx8 (ARM) running Ubuntu 18.04. I have a stress
> test that plays random videos (Big Buck Bunny.mp4 is one of them) every 5
> minutes.

Is this happening with software decoder or is this with NXP kernel +
NXP GStreamer elements (assuming they exist) ? Ubuntu Bionic has
GStreamer 1.14, have you tried to build GStreamer yourself to compare
against newer versions ?

> 
> From time to time, gstreamer just freezes but there is no error or issues in
> the syslog. I look into HTOP and I see that gstreamer is still consuming cpu
> at 15% which is the normal for me. If I wait long enough, I receive EOS from
> gstreamer as if it terminated the video normally with the Total showed
> frames, Playing for and fps information, etc.
> 
> It does not matter the length of the video. I have seen the problem with 2
> minutes and 30 minutes long videos.
> 
> HTOP is showing no memory leaks or anything wrong.
> 
> If I play again it plays normally. the issue is intermittent and it does not
> lock up the hardware.
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> If you are a gstreamer veteran , I will pay you a bounty to work with me to
> uncover this issue.

Any warning with GST_DEBUG=3 environment set ?

> 
> Thanks so much,
> Gil
> 
> 
> 
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