While the suspend modes NONE and PAUSED provided a low startup latency
for connecting clients they did not ensure that streams started on
fresh data.
With this property we can maintain the low startup latency of those
suspend modes while also ensuring that a stream starts on a key unit.
Furthermore, by modifying the value of a new property,
ensure-keyunit-on-start-timeout, it is possible to accept a keyunit of
a certain age but discard it if too much time has passed and instead
force a new keyunit.
Fixes#2443
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/4334>
Previously it was possible that a shared media was just in the process
of being unprepared because the last client disappeared, while another
client retrieved it from the cache and then tried to use it. Unless the
media was reusable this would've then failed unnecessarily.
To avoid this it is necessary to lock the media directly in
gst_rtsp_media_factory_construct() and return a locked media. After
locking the cached media it is necessary to check if the media was ever
unprepared or is actually reusable and based on that either reuse it or
create a new media.
This minimally changes the gst_rtsp_media_factory_construct() API to
always return a locked media, and adds a new
gst_rtsp_media_can_be_shared() function to check if a media can actually
be shared in practice.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/4606>
