Otherwise we might wait forever for serialized queries to be handled as the
loop function is stopped and as such we will never ever dequeue the query and
handle it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745319
... and only unblock when either a) the pad becomes active and the event
should be forwarded or b) the active pad went EOS itself.
Otherwise it can happen that we switch from a longer track that is not EOS yet
to a shorter track that already is EOS, but the shorter track won't have any
possibility to send its EOS event downstream anymore.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740949
TRUE is 1, but every other non-zero value is also considered true. Comparing
for equality with TRUE would only consider 1 but not the others.
Also normalize booleans in a few places.
Write out multiple buffers possibly containing multiple
memories with one writev() call, without merging the
buffer memories first, like ::render() does currently.
When comparing percentage values, compare with 0-100 scale as it
has already been made relative to 0-high_percent, otherwise we mark
the queue as not buffering and report a 50% to the user. This leads to
a buffering stall as the user assumes the queue is still buffering but
it thinks it isn't.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736969
multiqueue's queues stored percent value is the percentage from 0
to 100 (max-size-*) and should be compared with the requested limit
(high_percentage) set by the user and not with 100% to check if
buffering should stop. Otherwise we are only stopping buffering when the
queue gets completely full.
In this mode we accept previously set filter caps until
upstream renegotiates to something that is compatible
to the current filter caps.
This allows dynamic caps changes in the pipeline even
if there is a queue between any conversion element
and the capsfilter. Without this we would get not-negotiated
errors if timing is bad.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739002
If we are pushing a serialized query into a queue and the queue is
filled, we will end in a deadlock. We need to release the lock before
pushing and acquire it again afterward.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737794
Revert the previous commit which removes the pattern property of fakesrc because
doing so will break ABI. Bringing the property back but marking it as unused
in the property string.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737683
Eventhough the "pattern" property of fakesrc can be set, it is never used. The
only pattern supported is the default 0x00 -> 0xff, and if a pattern is set by
the user it is ignored. Removing the unused property and variable.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737683
This might create deadlocks and we need to avoid holding element
specific lock while posting messages
For example a deadlock will happen if while posting the message,
someone connected on the bus (sync) tries to DOT the pipeline.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737102
It might cause deadlocks to post messages while holding the queue2
lock. To avoid this a new boolean flag is set whenever a new
buffering percent is found. The message is posted after the lock
is released.
To make sure the buffering messages are posted in the right order, messages
are posted holding another lock. This prevents 2 threads trying to post
messages at the same time.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736969
It might cause deadlocks to post messages while holding the multiqueue
lock. To avoid this a new boolean flag is set whenever a new buffering percent
is found. The message is posted after the lock can be released.
To make sure the buffering messages are posted in the right order, messages
are posted holding another lock. This prevents 2 threads trying to post
messages at the same time.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736295
In gst_data_uri_src_create(), buf cannot be NULL, hence
else if (*buf != NULL) will be invalid so removing the
else if condition and adding a check to unreference buf
in else condition, just in case
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735861
Don't re-start the queue push task on the source pad when a
flush-stop event comes in and we're in the process of shutting
down, otherwise that task will never be stopped again.
When the element is set to READY state, the pads get de-activated.
The source pad gets deactivated before the queue's own activate_mode
function on the source pads gets called (which will stop the thread),
so checking whether the pad is active before re-starting the task on
receiving flush-stop should be fine. The problem would happen when the
flush-stop handler was called just after the queue's activate mode
function had stopped the task.
Spotted and debugged by Linus Svensson <linux.svensson@axis.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734688
Otherwise it would only be proxied for the active pad which can lead
upstream to use an incompatible caps for the downstream element.
Even if a reconfigure event is sent upstream when the pad is activated, this
will save the caps reconfiguration if it is already using an acceptable caps.
Imagine the following 'pipeline'
--------------
p1/| 'fullqueue' |--- 'laggy' downstream
--------- / | |
-| demuxer | | multiqueue |
--------- \ | |
p2\| 'emptyqueue' |--- 'fast' downstream
--------------
In the case downstream of one single queue (fullqueue) has (a lot of) latency
(for example for reverse playback with video), we can end up having the other
SingleQueue (emptyqueue) emptied, before that fullqueue gets
unblocked. In the meantime, the demuxer tries to push on fullqueue, and
is blocking there.
In that case the current code will post a BUFFERING message on the bus when
emptyqueue gets emptied, that leads to the application setting the pipeline state to
PAUSED. So now we end up in a situation where 'laggy downstream' is
prerolled and will not unblock anymore because the pipeline is set to
PAUSED, the fullequeue does not have a chance to be emptied and
the emptyqueue can not get filled anymore so no more BUFERRING message
will be posted and the pipeline is stucked in PAUSED for the eternity.
Making sure that we do not try to "buffer" if one of the single queue
does not need buffering, prevents this situtation from happening though it lets the
oportunity for buffering in all other cases.
That implements a new logic where we need all singlequeue to need
buffering for the multiqueue to actually state buffering is needed,
taking the maximum buffering of the single queue as the reference point.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734412
After EOS there will be no further buffer which could propagate the
error upstream, so nothing is going to post an error message and
the pipeline just idles around.
When eos events are forwarded simultaneouly from two sinkpads on
funnel, it doesnot forward the eos to sourcepad. The reason is
sticky events are stored after the event callbacks are returned.
Therefore while one is about to store the sticky events on the its
sinkpad, other sinkpad starts checking for the eos events on all other
sinkpads and assumes eos is not present yet.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732851
Avoid relocations and refactor so that we don't calculate
the fixed and known at compile time maximum string size
every time. Also skip the mini object flags which we are
not going to print anyway.
The initial buffers (that were used for timestamping) might have PTS
and DTS set. In order to forward those properly, get the initial
PTS/DTS from the adapter and set them on the reconstructed output
buffer.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733291
We always work in passthrough mode so there's no point in doing
something more clever in basetransform. Also the basetransform
code leads to problems with incomplete caps and downstream
elements that use GST_PAD_FLAG_ACCEPT_INTERSECT.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732559
When no data is coming from sinkpads and eos events
arrived at one of the sinkpad, funnel forwards the EOS
event to downstream. It forwards the EOS because lastsink pad
is NULL. Also the unit testcase of the funnel is not checking
the correct behavior as it should. The unit test case should
fail if one of the sink pad has already EOS present on it and
we are trying to push one more EOS.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731716
The start and stop should represent the currently downloading region.
The estimated-total should represent the remaining time to download
the currently downloading region. This makes it a lot more useful
for applications because they can then use those values to update
the fill region and use the estimated time to delay playback.
Update the docs with this clarification.
When the first segment has position != 0 and position > max-size-time
it will immediatelly cause the multiqueue to signal overrun.
This can happen easily with adaptive streams when switching bitrates
and starting a new group. The segment for this new group will have
a position that is much greater than 0 and will lead to this issue.
This is particularly harmful when the adaptive stream uses mpegts
that doesn't emit no-more-pads and it might happen that only one
of the stream pads was added when the multiqueue overruns and gets
the group ready for exposing. So the user will only get audio or
video.
The solution is to fallback to the sink segment while the source pad
has no segment.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729124
They are very confusing for people, and more often than not
also just not very accurate. Seeing 'last reviewed: 2005' in
your docs is not very confidence-inspiring. Let's just remove
those comments.
The qlock is released between popping a buffer from the queue
and pushing it. When this buffer causes the sink to wait in
preroll, this lets a query see that the queue is empty, and
push the query then wait for it to be serviced. However, this
will not be done till after peroll, and this will thus block.
If upstream was waiting on buffering to reach 100% before
switching to PLAYING, a deadlock would ensue.
This had been fixed recently by failing queries when the
queue2 was buffering, but this happens to break some other
case (playbin on a local http server and matroska), while
this patch works for both.
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728345
This should never happen theoretically, but since a transient
failure would get us to silently read wrong data, it's worth
erroring out. And it silence this:
Coverity 206034
The qlock is released between popping a buffer from the queue
and pushing it. When this buffer causes the sink to wait in
preroll, this lets a query see that the queue is empty, and
push the query then wait for it to be serviced. However, this
will not be done till after peroll, and this will thus block.
If upstream was waiting on buffering to reach 100% before
switching to PLAYING, a deadlock would ensue.
We fix it by refusing the query when buffering, as per Wim's
recommendation on IRC.
Use the pad as object for logging to get more context. Use
gst_pad_store_sticky_event() instead of sending the event. This avoids a warning
as here the pad is not yet linked and we actually don't want to send anyway.
Use the last result as a default when pushing a item from a single queue,
otherwise the status gets reset to _OK when pushing events.
This causes problems when mistakenly activating a not-linked stream
that is being ignored upstream as it is not being used (adaptive
scenarios), it will make the multiqueue post a buffering message
on a pad that won't receive buffers
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725917
Make a method to get the seeking threshold. If data is further away from
this threshold we want to perform a seek upstream.
When the current downloaded range can merge with the next range,
actually include the data of the next range into the current range
instead of discarding it. Also decide if we seek to the write position
of the merged range or continue reading.
If the segment event is allowed to be pushed to all pads it
will lead to an assertion of 'sticky event misordering:
segment received before caps' in case the pad-negotiation-mode
is set to 'active' or 'none'.
This patch fixes this by making all sticky events follow the
property like the caps event to prevent misordering warnings.
When a new pad is activated the current sticky events on the
sinkpad are forwarded to it in the proper order.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723266
When the single queue size was just bumped by 1 to allow more buffers to
be added, the buffers limit could be reduced to the current level when
setting the max-size-buffers property. This would result in a stall
since the queue would not grow anymore at this point.
Prevent this by not reducing a single queue size below the current
number of buffers + 1.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712597
In the case where one singlequeue is full and all other are not linked, the
growing of the full queue does not work correctly. The result depends on if
the full queue is last in the queue list or not.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722891
It is already stored inside the GstSegment struct and
was only duplicating information. Also removed some
weird positon if/else that would possibly change the
segment that was going to be pushed downstream
When prerolling/buffering, multiqueue has its buffers limit set
to 0, this means it can take an infinite amount of buffers.
When prerolling/buffering finishes, its limit is set back to 5, but
only if the current level is lower than 5. It should (almost) never be
and this will cause prerolling/buffering to need to wait to reach the
hard bytes and time limits, which are much higher.
This can lead to a very long startup time. This patch fixes this
by setting the single queues to the max(current, new_value) instead
of simply ignoring the new value and letting it as infinite(0)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712597
The offset can be -1 when we are configured in TIME format. Instead of
failing the seek and erroring, do what and offset of -1 is supposed to
do and simply read from the current offset.
It was used for pad-alloc in 0.10 but currently is completely unused
and not necessary. All pad access is protected by the tee object lock
and keeping another reference to the current pad.
This makes buffering stop in case a stream switch happens. This is
important for adaptive streams that can disable not-linked streams
to avoid consuming the network bandwidth.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719575
After patch bda406c4, the state of the singlequeue was set to OK, but nothing
would then wake up the thread, as the other wakeup functions only look at
singlequeues that are marked as having received as not-linked.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708200
* add many missing declarations to sections
* GstController has been removed, update docs
* skip GstIndex when generating documentation
* rephrase so gtkdoc doesn't imagine return value
* add missing argument description for gst_context_new()
* document GstOutputSelectorPadNegotiationMode and move to header-file
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719614
Use gap events to advance the selector's pad position.
This is relevant to keep sync_streams mode working when one of the
streams doesn't have data all the time.
Since the refactoring of GstContext (commits
qc9fa2771b508e9aaeecc700e66e958190476f,
a7f5dc8b8a,
690326f906dc82e41ea58b81cdb2e3e88b754,
d367dc1b0d4ecb37f4d27267e03d7bf0c6c06a6, and
82d158aed3f2e8545e1e7d35085085ff58f18) I am no longer able to get
a shared context for an element that is used twice in a pipeline.
I used the documentation and eglglessink as my reference for
implementing the GstContext logic.
As the code was tied to a hardware decoder, I have ported the
GstContext code to fakesink to show the problem. Using the old
API a single ExampleMgr instance is created, but using the new
API each element is creating its own instance.
In some cases the wait for more data was happening without updating
the buffering state, meaning the API user would not be able to notice
it should pause the pipeline and update UI to indicate that is the
case, the video would likely stutter instead.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707648
If the multiqueue has automatically grown chances are good that
we will cause the pipeline to starve if the maximum level is reduced
below that automatically grown size.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707156
When a buffering query is handled it uses the get_buffering_percent()
function to get some statitics. Unfortunately this function also
calculates whether the queue should be buffering and adapts the
global queue2 state in case of state transitions from/to buffering
(including whether a buffering message was posted on the bus!).
This means that there is a race which can cause buffering messages
to never posted if the global state changes happen as a result of aa
query instead of resulting from bytes flowing in/out.
Spotted by Sjoerd Simons.
Change to only query state in get_buffering_percent() and update
state only in update_buffering().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705332
When in download buffering mode queue2 didn't check if a range offset is
in a undownloaded range before the currently in-progress range. Causing
seeks to an earlier offset to, well, take a while.
When asked about the scheduling flags first check with upstream and
simply add the _SEEKABLE flag when using a temporary file as storage.
This enables the forwarding of _SEQUENTIAL and _BANDWIDTH_LIMITED from
sources if needed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704927
A new active pad might not be notified in some cases, which results
in the current track number not being set in playbin.
The active-pad notification is only sent in the chain and sink_event
functions, and only when the buffer or event that triggered the active
pad selection is from the newly activated pad. So in the other case
the notification will never be sent.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704691
We must be certain that we don't cause a deadlock when blocking the serialized
queries. One such deadlock can happen when we are buffering and downstream is
blocked in preroll and a serialized query arrives. Downstream will not unblock
(and allow our query to execute) until we complete buffering and buffering will
not complete until we can answer the query..
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702840
Otherwise we might get deadlocks caused by lock order inversion:
During the chain function the stream lock is first locked and then the
inputselector lock. During pad release we first locked the inputselector
lock and then deactivating the pad would lock the stream lock.
There's no reason why the inputselector lock should be required while
deactivating and removing the pad, it's only needed before.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704002
We must be certain that we don't cause a deadlock when blocking the serialized
queries. One such deadlock can happen when we are buffering and downstream is
blocked in preroll and a serialized query arrives. Downstream will not unblock
(and allow our query to execute) until we complete buffering and buffering will
not complete until we can answer the query..
Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702840
During FLUSH_START the query needs to be unblocked already, otherwise
it can lead to deadlocks if the FLUSH_START is the result of something
done from the streaming thread of the srcpad (the queue will never be
emptied!).
Fixes some deadlocks during flushing.
And store queue items differently to not accidentially read
already unreffed queries when flushing. Queries are owned by
upstream and not us.
In the case the source has no caps, caps must be sent before segment. This
fixes few unit tests that where failing due to the new misordering warning.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699968
There's no point in storing them and sending them later, and doing so would
later require to distinguish between events that should come before caps and
after.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692784
API: GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_DECLARE()
API: GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_REGISTER()
Based on a patch by Håvard Graff <havard.graff@tandberg.com>.
This now allows GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE() to create a static plugin if
GST_PLUGIN_BUILD_STATIC is defined. The resulting plugin can be
statically linked or dynamically linked during compilation but
can't be dynamically loaded during runtime.
Also adds GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_DECLARE() and GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_REGISTER(),
which allows to register a static linked plugin easily.
It is still required to manually register every single statically linked
plugin from inside the application as this can't be automated in a portable
way.
A new configure parameter --enable-static-plugins was added that allows
to build all plugins we build here as static plugins.
Fixes bug #667305.
When querying a queue that is flushing we end up adding
a query to the queuearray without taking a reference to
that query (because the normal functionality is to block
until that query is done and discarded from the queue).
This later causes problem if the query is unreffed outside
of the queue before we discard the queue. There is a check
to avoid unreffing any lingering query-objects, but since
the query has been deleted that check fails.
This commit depends on other fixes done to gst_queue_array_find()
and gst_queue_array_drop_element().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692691
The control of wheteher a SingleQueue is full is not correct.
Rewrote single_queue_overrun_cb() so it checks the correct variables
when checking if the queue has reached the hard limits, and to
increase the max buffer limit once for each call.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690557
Implement the same behaviour as gst_pad_push_event when pushing sticky events
fails, that is don't fail immediately but fail when data flow resumes and upstream
can aggregate properly.
This fixes segment seeks with decodebin and unlinked audio or video branches.
Fixes: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687899
In flush-on-eos=true mode any data remaining in the queue is
discarded when an EOS event is received, and the EOS passed
downstream as soon as possible (instead of waiting for all
buffers in the queue to get processed by downstream first).
May or may not be useful in capture/encoding scenarios.
Basetransform should not try to negotiate in passthrough mode but
respect the order of what we return in the transform_caps method.
A typical case is that you specify some specific new caps in the
caps property but also allow the current caps to pass.
Fix race that could cause data corruption when seeking in ring buffer
mode.
In perform_seek_to_offset(), called from the demuxer's pull_range
request, we drop the lock, tell upstream (usually a http source)
to seek to a different offset, then re-acquire the lock before we
do things to the ranges. However, between us sending the seek event
and re-acquiring the lock, the source thread might already have pushed
some data and moved along the range's writing_pos beyond the seek
offset. In that case we don't want to set the writing position back
to the requested seek position, as it would cause data to be written
to the wrong offset in the file or ring buffer.
Reproducible doing seek-emulated fast-forward/backward on 006653.
Conflicts:
plugins/elements/gstqueue2.c
Only one STREAM_START event should be let through, else it will
confuse downstream elements that think a new stream is starting
whereas in fact we are just switching to a different input.
In the future we might want to let them through but with the same
sequence number.
This guarantees a bit more consistency in which input stream will
be selected by default. It would previously be the first pad on which
an event/buffer/query was received ... which was racy and non-predictable.
The buffering-left field in the buffering message should contain a time estimate
in milliseconds about for long the buffering is going to take. We can calculate
this value when we do rate_estimates.
Only consider the queue empty if the minimum thresholds
are not reached and data is at the queue head. Otherwise
we would block forever on serialized queries.
This also makes sending of serialized events, like caps, happen
faster and potentially improves negotiation performance.
Fixes bug #679458.
Postpone the #ifdef to a point after glib.h (via gstfdsink.h) is included
so that the needed defines and header includes can be done correctly,
especially on Visual C++ builds.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679112
Save the value of the pad's got_eos in gst_funnel_release_pad,
before calling gst_element_remove_pad. This is because
gst_element_remove_pad may free the pad.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678017
If multiple sources are plugged into the funnel and one of the
sources emits an EOS, that event is propogated through the funnel
even though other sources connected to the funnel may still be
pushing data. This patch waits to send an EOS event until the
funnel has received an EOS event on each sinkpad.
Ported from d397ea97 in 0.10 branch.
This adds properties to use the clock time for deciding when
to drop buffers for inactive pads and a property to buffer all
not rendered buffers for the active pad to allow pad switching
without losing any buffers at all.
Conflicts:
plugins/elements/gstinputselector.c
In commit bf0964b6 a check for pad is activated was not carried.
This leads to attempt to pull while in push mode when force_caps
is set. In this case without the attached check even when activated
in pull mode we activate back to push mode.
This is from comment in previous code , case number eight:
8. if the sink pad is activated, we are in pull mode. succeed.
- otherwise activate both pads in push mode and succeed.
Putting it back fixes playback of webm in webkit+gstreamer 1.0 .
Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676003
When we don't have the requested data in the ringbuffer and we move our read
pointer to the requested position, signal the delete cond to inform the writer
that we changed the current fill level. If we don't, the writer might stay
blocked and we might wait forever.
When we don't have enough bytes in the ringbuffer to satisfy the current
request, first update the current read position before waiting. If we don't do
that, the ringbuffer might appear full and the writer will never write more
bytes to wake us up.
Only add the range when we receive a segment event on the sinkpad. The add_range
method will modify the write position, which only makes sense to do on the
sinkpad.
Set the seeking flag right before we send a seek event upstream and discard all
data untill we see a flush-stop again. We need to do this because we activate
the range that we seek to immediately after sending the seek event and it is
possible that we receive data in our chain function from before the seek
which would then be added to the wrong range resulting in data corruption.
When using the ringbuffer, handle the newsegment event like we handle it when
using the temp-file mode: create a new range for the new byte segment. The new
segment should normally already be created when we do a seek.
Doesn't actually change the default value, just makes use of the
define there is. Superficial testing with fakesink and jpegdec did
not reveal improved performance for bigger block sizes, so leave
default as it is.
A flush from the upstream element should not make buffering go to 0, the next
pull request might be inside a range that we have and then we don't need to
buffer at all. If the next pull is outside anything we have, buffering will
happen as usual anyway.
We want to forward the flush events received on the sinkpad whenever the srcpad
is activated in pushmode, which can also happen when using the RINGBUFFER or
DOWNLOAD mode and downstream failed to activate us in pull mode.
When we have EOS, read the remaining bytes in the buffer and make sure we don't
wait for more data. Also clip the output buffer to the amount of remaining
bytes.
When using the ringbuffer mode, the buffer is filled when we reached the
max_level.bytes mark or the total size of the ringbuffer, whichever is smaller.
Use a threshold variable to hold the maximum distance from the current position
for with we will wait instead of doing a seek.
When using the ringbuffer and the requested offset is not available, avoid
waiting until the complete ringbuffer is filled but instead do a seek when the
requested data is further than the threshold.
Avoid doing the seek twice in the ringbuffer case.
Use the same threshold for ringbuffer and download buffering.
Remove GST_MAJORMINOR and replace it by GST_API_VERSION
Also set GST_VERSION_{MAJOR,MINOR,MICRO,NANO} explicitely
now.
All versions are at 1.0.0 now for the release soon but
API/ABI can still change until the 1.0.0 release.
Next release versions until 1.0.0 will be 0.10.9X and
these will be release candidates. GST_VERSION_* will
nonetheless stay at 1.0.0.0.
gst_buffer_take_memory -> gst_buffer_insert_memory because insert is what the
method does.
Make all methods deal with ranges so that we can replace, merge, remove and map
a certain subset of the memory in a buffer. With the new methods we can make
some code nicer and reuse more code. Being able to deal with a subset of the
buffer memory allows us to optimize more cases later (most notably RTP headers
and payload that could be in different memory objects).
Make some more convenient macros that call the more generic range methods.
We reset all the waiting streams, let them push another buffer to
see if they're now active again. This allows faster switching
between streams and prevents deadlocks if downstream does any
waiting too.
Also improve locking a bit, srcresult must be protected by the
multiqueue lock too because it's used/set from random threads.
Otherwise we might block forever because upstream (e.g. multiqueue) is waiting
for the previously active stream to return forever (which is waiting here
in inputselector) before pushing something on the newly selected stream.
Improve the docs of the get/pull_range functions, define the lifetime of the
buffer in case of errors and short reads.
Make sure the code does what the docs say.
