If set, the parent is used to proxy need-context messages from
uridownloader's http source in order to get cookies/headers
from the pipeline.
Based on a patch from Philippe Normand
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726314
The URI downloader is creating the source element with
gst_element_factory_make() that returns a floating reference that nobody
is consuming. This is causing problems in WebKit, where the smart
pointers used to take references of the source elment get confused and
end up consuming the floating reference and then releasing the element,
which usually crashes because the URI downloader still tries to use its
src element. See https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144040.
This commit adds two helper functions to ensure and destroy the source
element, to make the code simpler and less error prone. The ensure
method takes care of checking if we can reuse the existing one or we
need to create a new one, taking always its ownership. The destroy
method simply avoids duplicated code to set the source to NULL state and
then unref it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766053
The urn:mpeg:dash:utc:http-head:2014 method of time synchronisation
uses an HTTP HEAD request to a specified URL and then parses the
Date: HTTP response header.
This commit adds support to dashdemux for this method of time
synchronisation by making a HEAD request and then parsing the Date:
response.
This commit adds support to gstfragment to return the HTTP headers
and to uridownloader to support HEAD requests. To avoid creating a
new API, the RANGE get function is re-used (abused?) with start=-1
and end=-1 to indicate a HEAD request.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752413
A deadlock can happen when the source sends EOS when
being put to NULL as the object lock is being held by the
thread that sets the element to NULL and is needed by
the event handler.
Cancelled is a 'permanent' state of the uridownloader and is only
removed by a call to _reset. When a download fails we just want to
return NULL on the fetch function and leave the downloader ready
for another fetch, otherwise the user has to call _reset after
failed downloader, even when it didn't call _cancel.
Adds a new API gst_uri_downloader_fetch_uri_with_range that allows
downloading only a byte range from an URI. It uses a seek event
sent to the source to signal the range to be downloaded.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702206
When chain method was called after gst_uri_downloader_stop and before state has been changed to NULL, execution was blocking on g_mutex_lock.
Conflicts:
gst-libs/gst/uridownloader/gsturidownloader.c
When downloading and cancelling quickly the uridownloader object and the
element using it could miss the cancelled window and the uridownloader
would fetch the wrong URI and block on subsequent fetches.
This was also problematic when stopping elements, while one task would
call the cancel, another element thread could issue a new fetch_uri. As
the cancel state isn't 'permanent' this fetch_uri would block and
prevent the whole element from stopping and going to NULL.
This patch makes the 'cancelled' state permanent until a
gst_uri_downloader_reset is called. This way the element knows the
window where the uridownloader isn't active and only reactivate it when
ready.
