Understanding about the 'tee' element

[neoragex2002]

Hey all,

Recently I'm learning about how to use 'tee' and found things really weird.

What I'm doing is below:

```bash
$ gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc pattern=18 ! 'video/x-raw, width=1920, height=1080' ! \
    tee name=t \
    t. ! queue ! videoconvert ! fpsdisplaysink sync=false \
    t. ! queue ! videoconvert ! fpsdisplaysink name=sink0 sync=false
````

A probe function of gst-python was also been written to to hook the 'sink' pad of sink0 in the 2nd tee-branch.
As you can see the probe function was very simple. It just slept for random msec.

```python
import random

def probe_func(pad, info):
    delay = random.randint(0,2)
    GLib.usleep(delay*200000) # 200ms x delay
    return Gst.PadProbeReturn.OK
````

But I found things are going weird: the display of the 1st tee-branch was frequently choked because of the random sleeps in the 2nd tee-branch.
It seems that the queue in 2nd tee-branch was totally USELESS to decouple the running of the two branches.

All I want is an 'independent enough' behavior of the 2nd tee-branch that does not block the 1st branch. and I also want my probe func could 
read EVERY frame AT ITS OWN PACE, instead of DISCARDING some frames to catch up the pace of 1st branch by using `queue leaky=2 max-size-buffers=1' 
in the 2nd tee-branch.

Can anyone kindly enough to explain this for me?

Thanks in advance,

Rio
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