best way to 'relay' a stream between processes

[Marc]

Hi Eslam, thanks that was indeed what I was expecting. However from these examples and this fdin I should assume I can not use this option with gst-launch not? Or can I work around this with something like mkfifo?



> 
> See the following:
> https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2017/11/17/ipcpipeline-
> splitting-a-gstreamer-pipeline-into-multiple-processes/
> https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/ipcpipeline/index.html?g
> i-language=c
> 
> Best Regards,
> Eslam Ahmed
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 11:15 PM Marc via gstreamer-devel <gstreamer-
> devel at lists.freedesktop.org <mailto:gstreamer-
> devel at lists.freedesktop.org> > wrote:
> 
> 
> 	I was wondering what is the best/efficient way to relay a stream to
> a different process for further processing.
> 
> 	Say I have process a, that transcodes a stream and archives the
> original into a file.
> 	Say I have process b, that resizes the original stream of process
> a.
> 
> 	Currently I am using this in process a
> 	t. ! queue ! tcpserversink port=4000"$CAMNR" async=0 \
> 
> 	and this in process b
> 	tcpclientsrc port=40001 ! queue ! tsdemux
> 
> 
> 	I guess this is fine if you have some micro service architecture
> where you have to communicate via tcp. But if this all resides on the
> same host and networking is not necessary, is there a better way of
> doing this?
> 
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