textoverlay stability issue

[Peter Biro]

Hi Tim,

Thanks! Such thing would would be great way to debug. Is there any environment variable which I can use to configure this ring buffer logs?

I mean I can set this ringbuffer up with gst_debug_remove_log_function(NULL) and gst_debug_add_ring_buffer_logger but we were not able to detect the problem from within the application so far. We only notice that the CPU load drops and the stream is stopped and as I guess I should call the gst_debug_ring_buffer_logger_get_logs from within the application and I dont really have a trigger point.

I tried to add a callback on the pipeline to print status messages / state changes with:


     bus = gst_element_get_bus (pipeline);
     gst_bus_add_signal_watch (bus);
     g_signal_connect (bus, "message", G_CALLBACK (cb_message), pipeline);


and then:

static void
cb_message (GstBus * bus, GstMessage * msg, GstElement* pipeline)
{
  INFO("bus message: " + std::string(gst_message_type_get_name(GST_MESSAGE_TYPE (msg))));
}

But this is remain silent as well.


So is there a way to configure this behaviour / trigger the log  flushing externally? Or setup a log rotation? (all I saw so far is the GST_DEBUG_FILE)

Thanks!

Bests,
Peter


> On 2021. May 12., at 11:38, Tim Müller <tim at centricular.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
>> We tried to debug it in:
>>  * info log we dont have any printouts (unfortunately we are not able
>> to set the debug level higher since logs would fill up the disk)
> 
> You can remove the default log function with
> 
>  gst_debug_remove_log_function(NULL)
> 
> and do
> 
>  gst_debug_add_ring_buffer_logger(..)
> 
> and then grab the last X MB of logs using
> 
>  gst_debug_ring_buffer_logger_get_logs()
> 
> when you detect that things have gone wrong.
> 
> Cheers
> Tim
> 

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