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OUTDATED
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EOS as implemented on Jan 21 2001:
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1) terminology
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EOS: end of stream. The problem we are trying to solve here is
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detecting when the processing of a piece of media data has
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ended.
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This problem can get complicated because the pipeline might
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contain an arbitrary number of threads and other ASYNC and
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DECOUPLED elements like queues. We are trying to solve the
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obvious cases first by making some assumptions (see limitations)
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in order to avoid the exponentially growing complexity.
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The trick is to detect when all the elements/subbins/threads
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and done processing their data. This involves monitoring the
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threads and elements.
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Catching the EOS signals from an element is easy. We are focusing
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here on the EOS signal propagation to the manager bin up to the
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toplevel bin.
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EOS call: the pads have a method gst_pad_set_eos () that will
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be called by an element that cannot send any more data on the
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pad.
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EOS signals: elements fires the EOS signal when all it's pads are in
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EOS.
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chains: at plan generation, the bin will find the elements it has to
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manage. The elements that are managed together are called a chain.
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This is typically a set of elements that need input from their
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peer element before they can output data. When one of those elements
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cannot provide more data and goes into EOS, the other elements
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are basically worthless and there is no point in trying to schedule
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them anymore.
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Chains are typically broken up on DECOUPLED elements. Those elements
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have no clear relation between their input/output behaviour, like
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the queue.
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EOS denial: An element can deny an EOS call by returning FALSE on the
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overridden EOS call. This behaviour is typical for an element that
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performs _get_region on its sinkpad and basically does not care
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about the EOS because it knows it will pull a specific region
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anyway.
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2) EOS implementation
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EOS is currently implemented by selectively disabling scheduling of
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the chains. This procedure continues untill a bin/thread has no more
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chains left to schedule, at which point it will fire the EOS signal.
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A gboolean was added to the chain structure to indicate if this chain
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need scheduling. Initially this will gboolean will be set to TRUE.
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the gst_bin_iterate_func will only schedule those chains that have
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their need_scheduling flag to TRUE.
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All elements are treated as potential EOS signal providers. When we add
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the elements to a chain, we attach the eos signal to them and hand
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the chain they were added to as an argument to the signal handler.
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When an element goes to EOS, we mark the chain as need_scheduling=FALSE.
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This removes the chain from the scheduling loop.
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Since plain bins in bins are flattened during the chain creation, we do
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not need to worry about the bin EOS.
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Other elements that do their own managing (like threads) are treated
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differently, they are added to a list of EOS-providers. Since they
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have their own chains and use the same iterate_func, they will eventually
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fire EOS on their own when they run out of schedulable chains.
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The EOS signal of the EOS providers is caught by the parent bin which
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will then remove the bin from the list of possible EOS providers.
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Combining the EOS providers list and the chains, the bin will fire
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and EOS signal when 1) it has no more chains to schedule, 2) all its
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EOS providers have signaled EOS.
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3) queue EOS handling
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The queue overrides the eos call and performs the following:
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Set the sinkpad to EOS and signal its internal g_cond to unlock any
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waiting threads on the srcpad.
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The scrpad _get function performs the EOS call when no more buffers
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are queued and the sinkpad is in EOS. This causes the EOS call to
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propagate downstream and effectively causes all chains and threads
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to become EOS.
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4) limitations
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We assume a chain is a single schedualable entity. Rescheduling of
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the bins and chains are not performed.
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No provisions for changing the state of the elements in EOS, although
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this probably isn't hard to do.
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No provisions for undoing the EOS state. This is probably related to
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the state change, where a chain should become schedulable again when the
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element goes back to the PLAYING state.
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