How to I enable latencytracer in Python?

Sun May 3 08:43:00 UTC 2020

On Sat, 2020-05-02 at 17:00 -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:

> There is currently no API to the tracers, this is something we should
> do, we wealready have few bits marked as unstable API because their
> API isn't yet in ashape we are confident to freeze it.
> From the time being, you need to set the env before starting the
> process or dothis before calling Gst.init():
> 	os.environ["GST_TRACERS"] = "latency(flags=element)"
> There is no way to turn on and off at run-time for now.

FWIW, we do have API access for tracers in git master, e.g. the leak
tracer can be accessed via GObject API after retrieving it via
gst_tracing_get_active_tracers(), to do snapshotting etc. So couldadd
something similar to other tracers if we wanted to and it seemsuseful.
Cheers Tim
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