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<chapter id="cha-scheduler">
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<title>Understanding schedulers</title>
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<para>
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The scheduler is responsible for managing the plugins at runtime. The
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main responsabilities are:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Preparing the plugins so they can be scheduled.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Monitoring state changes and enabling/disabling the element in the
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chain.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Choosing an element as the entry point for the pipeline.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Selecting and distributing the global clock.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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<para>
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The scheduler is a plugable component, this means that alternative schedulers
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can be written and plugged into GStreamer. The default scheduler uses cothreads
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to schedule the plugins in a pipeline. Cothreads are fast and lightweight
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user-space threads.
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</para>
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<para>
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There is usually no need to interact with the scheduler directly, however it some
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cases it is feasable to set a specific clock or force a specific plugin as the
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entry point in the pipeline.
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="cha-scheduler">
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<title>Understanding schedulers</title>
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<para>
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The scheduler is responsible for managing the plugins at runtime. The
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main responsabilities are:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Preparing the plugins so they can be scheduled.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Monitoring state changes and enabling/disabling the element in the
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chain.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Choosing an element as the entry point for the pipeline.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Selecting and distributing the global clock.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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<para>
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The scheduler is a plugable component, this means that alternative schedulers
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can be written and plugged into GStreamer. The default scheduler uses cothreads
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to schedule the plugins in a pipeline. Cothreads are fast and lightweight
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user-space threads.
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</para>
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<para>
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There is usually no need to interact with the scheduler directly, however it some
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cases it is feasable to set a specific clock or force a specific plugin as the
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entry point in the pipeline.
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</para>
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</chapter>
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41
docs/random/wtay/DVDplayer
Normal file
41
docs/random/wtay/DVDplayer
Normal file
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A DVDplayer
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-----------
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1) set up a pipeline
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<draw pipeline schematics here>
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2) set to playing
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- dvdnav reads the ifo file. A set of events are generated to configure
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various elements in the pipeline. These would include:
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- SPU colors
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- whatmore..
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- first the src will read the DVD menu. this will contain mpeg2 data
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and spu/nav info. after the menu is sent down the pipeline
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the nav decoder waits for input somehow. The pipeline keeps on
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playing to animate the menus.
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- somehow a button is pressed on the menu: a method is triggered in
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the dvdnav plugin to tell it button X was pressed (event? app?).
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- dvdnav reacts and starts to stream other data.
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- nav packets in the stream indicate what can happen next.
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- update the menu
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- keep the menu
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- hide the menu
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- show the menu
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- pressing the hotkey to bring up the menu triggers a method in dvdnav
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which will send down nav info downstream to bring up the menu.
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A background picture (I frame) is sent downstream too.
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- nav info can also happen while playing the movie. This can highlite
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some buttons the user can press.
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- selecting a button triggers some color/compositing changes in SPU/NAVdec
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and an action on dvdnav.
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This talk will present the GStreamer Media framework. We will
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This paper will present the GStreamer Media framework. We
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explain briefly what a media framework is and what its advantages
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are. This introduction will present the basic design of GStreamer
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and how the modularity can provide many benefits.
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are. This introduction presents the basic design of GStreamer
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and how the modularity can provide many benefits when building
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multimedia applications ranging from simple audio/video players
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to complex audio/video mixing and non linear editing.
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We will then go into more detail about the different components of
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the framework and how specific problems were solved, such as
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pipelines, scheduling, state changes, buffers, type negotiation and
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events.
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We then go into more detail about the different components of
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the framework and how specific problems were solved.
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State changes are covered first as they bring the pipeline with
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all its components from a sleeping to a running state. The most
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interesting problem here is error recovery and thread interlocking.
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We will conclude the presentation with a little demonstration of
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the provided tools and applications.
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We expand on the scheduler that is responsible for making sure all
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of the components don't step on eachothers toes as they pass along
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data. We explain one of the possible scheduling methods using
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cothreads and expand on how the number of cothread switches can
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be reduced in order to make the data flow as fast as possible.
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Since GStreamer is a very open system that can basically handle
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any media type, a mechanism is provided to negotiate the media
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types between plugins. We continue with an explanation of how
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this type negotiation is done.
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Events are the mechanism to indicate changes in the data that is
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flowing through the pipeline, such as End Of Stream notification
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or seek and flush events. We explain how these events work and
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how they interact with the scheduler.
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We finally cover some of the interesting libraries that are
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provided with GStreamer, such as the bytestream library. We
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explain how all the pieces fit together and how we combine different
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techniques to create a very fast read API.
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filter or when the pad caps of two pads participating in the connection are not
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equal.
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Caps negotiation starts as early as possible.
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Real caps negotiation starts as soon as an element is in the READY state or higher.
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This means that the connect functions of the pads are only called when the element
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is at least READY. The intersection between two pads is made at connect time,
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regardless of element state.
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GstPad connection
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!Example 1:
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!
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! 1. before connecting the pads, they both have a set of possible media types,
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! on the pad, through the gstcaps function or on the padtemplate (here
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! on the pad, through the getcaps function or on the padtemplate (here
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! represented with capital letters)
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!
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! srcpad sinkpad
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! A B
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! B F
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! C A
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! G
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! G
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!
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! 2. when performing the connection, the intersection between the two sets of caps
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! is made.
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!
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! 4. if the caps are accepted, the intersection caps are set on both pads.
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!
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! 5. plugins will typically no configure themselves if they get variable caps.
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! 5. plugins will typically not configure themselves if they get variable caps.
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! It is possible though for a plugin to select one of the caps, fixate
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! some properties and refine the filter to fixed caps (see later)
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!
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!
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Pad connect functions
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---------------------
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A Pad can be notified when another pad is connected or reconnected to it with
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fixed or variable caps. This notification will be done with the optional
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GstPadConnectFunction callback that an element can provide for a pad.
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iRemember that this connection is _always_ called, not only whith fixed caps
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Remember that this connection is _always_ called, not only whith fixed caps
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but also with variable caps (if any).
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We will explain some of the common situations with some examples.
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!Example 4:
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!
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! 1. We have a simple mpeg audio decoder connected to a simple audio sink.
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! The mpeg decoder doesn't have a connect function on
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!
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!
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!
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add/remove, recursing bins if needed.
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the toplevel bin with a scheduler selects the global clock and calls
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set_clock on itself.
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set_clock on itself. This happens in the NULL->READY state.
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bins dispatch the set_clock to to all of the reveivers. Bins with
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a scheduler and another use_clock do nothing.
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When the clock is enabled again, it should start counting from where
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it was last disabled.
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NULL->READY : distribute clock, clock_reset,
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READY->PAUSED : clock_activate (FALSE)
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PAUSED->PLAYING : clock_activate (TRUE)
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PLAYING->PAUSED : clock_activate (FALSE);
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PAUSED->READY : clock_reset
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READY->NULL : delete clock;
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automatic Clock selection
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this.
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Use Cases
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-- queue ! mpeg2dec ! videosink
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/
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filesrc ! mpegdemux
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\
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-- queue ! mad ! osssink
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videosink is a receiver
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osssink is a provider
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osssink is selected as a clock provider since it is a Sink. The global
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pipeline distributes the clock to videosink and osssink.
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osssink sees that it receives its own clock.
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osssink uses the OSS ioctls to determine the number of bytes processed
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by the hardware. using the audio rate it can figure out the exact time
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and updates its clock with a resolution that matches the resolution
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as closely as possible.
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videosink blocks on the clock. with each update of the clock videosink
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is unblocked if the current time >= wait time and shows the frame.
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when osssink is PAUSED, the clock will not be updated anymore. osssink
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instructs its clock to convert all requests to select() calls.
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When it is set to PLAYING again, it resumes normal operation.
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first query the user registry, then fall back to system registry.
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model:
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registry_pool
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!
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!---> registry (name, priority)
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!
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!
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!---> registry (name, priority)
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! !
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! !-> plugin
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! !
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! !-> plugin
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! ... !
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! !-> feature ...
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!
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...
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A registrypool holds a list of registries each with a priority
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A registry contains a list of plugins (or libraries)
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A plugin contains a list of features (elementfactories, typefacories, ...)
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Loading the registry will do
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- instantiate empty GstPlugin objects (loaded flag == FALSE)
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- instantiate empty plugin features
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API
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