<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> </head> <body> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"></style> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <p>Who decides this number of threads? For example, you say that playbin has 3 threads. Why? Is the playbin plugin written that way? So the number of threads is not decided by the framework but rather by the plugin?</p> </div> <hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> gstreamer-devel <gstreamer-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf of Jan Alexander Steffens <jan.steffens@gmail.com><br> <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 14, 2016 5:44:55 PM<br> <b>To:</b> Discussion of the development of and with GStreamer<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: Is gstreamer thread heavy?</font> <div> </div> </div> <div> <div dir="ltr">In the simplest case, the pipeline will spawn one thread.<br> <br> The more usual case (playbin) has one thread reading in the data, one thread per decoder and one thread per output device. In your case, three threads.<br> </div> <br> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 9:11 PM test app <<a href="mailto:testacct9111@gmail.com">testacct9111@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr">i am new to gst. I heard it needs very high number of threads. For a simple playback pipeline with .mp4 with video only decode, how many threads does it roughly require? in general, appreciate your expert insight into thread heaviness of gstreamer.</div> _______________________________________________<br> gstreamer-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a><br> </blockquote> </div> </div> </body> </html>