<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></div>I've read the tutorial on dynamic pipelines, but this is not clear:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I want to take video and preview it</div><div class="">mux audio</div><div class="">file sink </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">now if file sink is on demand can I</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">fakesink when I dont want to record</div><div class="">filesink when I do</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(since this is 1080 at 10mb/s and the operation may take 10 hours a dummy recording is not an option)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">dynamically set one or the other as often as I wish?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If I play my pipeline on suse it crackles every 10 or 20 secs</div><div class="">If I play using ubuntu (20.04) then playback is flawless</div><div class="">BUT if I record remotely with nomachine then it does crackle</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">htop suse 4 cores about 35%</div><div class="">htop ubuntu about the same</div><div class="">htop ubuntu + nomachine about 50%</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So I would like to try increasing (making more negative) the niceness of each process spawned by gstreamer. Any 'right way' to do that (standard C and unix requires set uid privilege to up nice to less than 0</div><div class="">)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks</div><div class="">James</div></body></html>