how to kindly stop a pipeline?

[Ian Davidson]

Include -e in your options - to tell the muxer to close down nicely.

On 22/12/2022 19:06, Maurizio via gstreamer-devel wrote:
> Hi all, i have this pipeline to capture a live video source and a live audio source in an mkv file
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> gst-launch-1.0.exe -v videotestsrc ! queue ! videoconvert ! mfh264enc bitrate=1024 ! h264parse ! mux. wasapisrc ! queue ! audioconvert ! opusenc ! opusparse ! matroskamux name=mux ! filesink location="E:\test.mkv"
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> when I press CTRL+C on the console to stop the pipeline I get a corrupted mkv file. Some players do not open it at all, while VLC open it but it's not seekable. Audio and video are ok but probably the matroskamux is not finalizing the file.
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> How I can exit gst-launch in a kindly way, I mean I want the muxer to complete the file index and exit.
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> Thank you
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