Request pipeline terminate from pulsesink

[Nicolas Dufresne]

Le jeudi 20 mai 2021 à 19:25 +0530, Tarun Tej K a écrit :
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 6:27 PM Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas at ndufresne.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > Le jeudi 20 mai 2021 à 13:03 +0530, Tarun Tej K via gstreamer-devel a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I need to stop my pipeline from a pulsesink element, whenever pulseaudio sends
> > > a custom defined stream event.
> > > I able to get the event from pulseaudio in the callback -
> > > gst_pulsering_stream_event_cb (
> > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/-/blob/master/ext/pulse/pulsesink.c#L789
> > > )
> > > I am looking for the proper way to get the pipeline terminated upon getting
> > > the event from pulseaudio
> > > I am thinking of two options :
> > > 1. send EOS from the pulsesink/basesink and use the EOS event in the
> > > application bus callback to stop the pipeline
> > 
> > This is not really doable from a streaming thread.
> > 
> > > 2. post NULL state msg request to the bus (like how PAUSED is posted upon CORK
> > > stream event currently)
> > > I am not sure if the clean up will be proper with the above two ways.
> > > Is there any better way for the sink elements to request for termination of
> > > the pipeline?
> > 
> > Perhaps we could have some generic kind of message. So you'd be sending a custom
> > pulse audio message with the string from the pulse event type. This allow for
> > "custom" work like yours without changing the element. The application take care
> > of doing the right thing.
> 
> Since the requirement is to terminate the pipeline, we have used the
> custom message and tried by setting the pipeline to NULL in the bus
> callback but it seems to be resulting a deadlock.
> Is it recommended to put the pipeline to null from bus callback or
> should we use some async call?

Don't use a sync_message handler to change your pipeline state. Use an async
handler (though gst_bus_pop, or glib mainloop integration).

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