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This is the current implementation of events, based on an earlier
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document, in this same directory, called "events".
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Definition
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The event system is designed to be a mechanism for _inter_plugin_
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communication. Their scope is therefore limited in a way that they do
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not serve as a way to communicate between plugins and the app (signals
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and properties are still used for plugin-app communication).
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Events will be generated by either a plugin or the app. It should be
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possible for a plugin to generate an event on one of its pads and it
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should be possible for an app to insert an event on an arbitrary pad or
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element in the pipeline.
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Event handling
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Events can both travel upstream or downstream. Some events, by nature,
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only travel in one direction.
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* downstream events
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- Travel in the same way buffers do. This includes that they are handled
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by the scheduler. The rationale is that the events should be kept
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as close to the buffers are possible.
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- plugins should check the type of the GstData passed in the _chain
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or _loop function and act appropriatly. This can be done by either
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doing their own stuff or by calling the default handler.
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- are handled on the sink pad.
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* upstream events
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- are handled with an event handler attached to the srcpad. A default
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handler is implemented for pads that don't implement their own
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handler.
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- travel as fast as possible. the rationale is that a seek event should
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get to the src element ASAP.
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Plugin generated events
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-----------------------
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We cover the range of events a plugin can generate and how they
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are supposed to handle them.
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* EOS
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when the plugin has no more data to push, it pushes an EOS
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event and calls gst_element_set_eos.
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_get based plugins should call gst_element_set_eos() before
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returning the EOS event.
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gst_element_set_eos() will put an element into the PAUSED state
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and will emit the eos signal to the app.
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Elements receiving the EOS event on a pad should not pull anymore
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data from that pad (in case of a loop based element).
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If the plugin cannot operate when it doesn't receive data on that
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pad, the element should go to EOS too. It does this by pushing
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any data it might still have, to the srcpad after which it
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pushes an EOS event on thet pad and calls gst_element_set_eos().
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The EOS event will typically originate from a source element, it
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will eventually put all elements into the PAUSED state so that the
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pipeline stops.
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The EOS event is strictly a downstream event.
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* DISCONTINUOUS
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The discontinuous event is used to indicate a discontinuity in the
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stream to downstream elements. A disctontinuity happens for the
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following reasons:
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- a source element is sending the first buffers of a stream.
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- an element has performed a seek operation resulting in a
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discontinuity in the data.
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elements that receive a discontinuity event should flush any state
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they might have and treat the new data as the start of new data.
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Before sending out the new data the element must send a discont event
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to the downstream element with at least a GST_FORMAT_TIME or
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GST_FORMAT_BYTES as the format/value pair (see below).
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a DISCONTINUOUS event has a flush flag. If that flag is set, the
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element should also remove any buffered data it might have.
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In addition to the flush flag, a DISCONTINUOUS event also caries up
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to GST_DISCONTINUOUS_MAX_FORMATS format/value pairs. These values
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might be used by the receiver of the event to resynchronize itself.
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elements that are using a clock must take special actions upon
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receiving the DISCONTINUOUS event: they must call
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gst_clock_handle_discont() with the GST_FORMAT_TIME value of
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the discont event.
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The DISCONTINUOUS event is strictly a downstream event.
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* SEEK
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The seek event is used to reposition the upstream elements to
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a new position in the media stream.
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The seek event caries a bitwise-or of a GstFormat and a GstSeekType.
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An element receiving the seek event on its srcpad should try to
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reposition itself as closely to the requested location as possible.
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if the ACCURATE flag is set and it cannot reposition itself with
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absolute certainty, it should reposition itself well before the
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requested position. If the ACCURATE flag is not set, the element
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is free to choose a suitable position in the stream before or after
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the requested time.
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If the flush flag is set it should make sure that it pushes the
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DISCONTINUOUS event the next time it is scheduled, clearing any
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data it might have buffered.
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The element is free to set the ACCURACY field in the event to notify
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the originator of the event of the result. If no accuracy is set, it
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defaults to FUZZY.
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The SEEK event is stricly an upstream event.
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* QOS
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QoS is sent to indicate Quality of Service to the upstream element(s).
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The QOS event is stricly an upstream event.
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* FLUSH
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A plugin can send a flush event to its src or sink peer to clear the
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buffered contents in the pipeline.
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application generated events
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The application can insert events into the pipeline at arbirary
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places. This is done by calling gst_pad_send_event() on a pad.
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An application can also insert events on any element. The element
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can implement its own handler for these events or it can use
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the default handler, which simply forwards the event to the first
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connected sinkpad of the element. Events to an element are send using
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gst_element_send_event().
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This first implementation only covers inserting events on src pads
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since inserting events on sinkpads needs changes to the scheduler.
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* FLUSH
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A flush event is used to clear any buffered data an element might
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have. It is a downstream and upstream event.
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Flush events are typically inserted into the pipeline by the app.
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Elements that buffer data should implement an event handler on
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both the sink and src pads it might have and respond to the flush
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event by clearing all data they have buffered.
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* SEEK
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The application can insert the seek event into the pipeline on
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a srcpad with gst_pad_send_event () or on an element with
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gst_element_send_event().
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The semantics of the seek parameters are described above.
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Thread safety
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-------------
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All upstream events can occur outside the element's thread context.
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It is not required to protect the element's data structures with
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mutexes because in principal we don't support sending events to
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a running threaded pipeline.
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GstQueue in its current form will refuse to pass events upstream if
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it is in the PLAYING state. Future versions might pass the event
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on as soon as the element is scheduled again on the sinkpad.
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An application cannot insert an event on an element that is PLAYING
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in another thread context. It is therefore strongly recommended to
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PAUSE the threaded pipeline before inserting an event.
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use cases
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1) filesrc ! fakesink
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<< explain EOS >>
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2) filesrc ! fakesink
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The app wants to perform a seek on filesrc. It'll call the gst_pad_send_event()
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on filesrcs src pad with the SEEK event type. The event handler will
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react and change filesrcs internal status. filesrc will return a DISCONT
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event before returning the buffer with the new offset.
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3) filesrc ! mpeg2parse video_0! queue ! { mpeg2dec ! xvideosink }
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lost of possibilities here: The app can choose to insert a seek event
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on the filesrc element (byte offset), it can insert a byte/time offset
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seek on the video_0 pad of mpeg2parse or it can insert a time seek event
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on mpeg2decs src pad.
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the event will travel upstream using the handlers and the intermediate
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elements can convert the event from a time to a byte offset (possibly
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using GstTimeCache to speed up things).
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Filesrc will get a byte seek event on its src pad and will proceed as
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in case 2.
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As can be seen from this example the app will generate an event in another
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context than those of the plugins, so this will need proper locking.
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The app can also choose to insert a flush event on one of the src
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pads. The plugins would clear their cached data and forward the event
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to their upstream peer pad(s).
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4)...
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Insert impossible case here..
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