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Hunsu
Hunsu

Reputation: 3391

What the queue element do in Gstreamer pipeline

I have this pipeline :

gst-launch -v filesrc location=video.mkv ! matroskademux name=d \
d. ! queue ! ffdec_h264 ! subtitleoverlay name=overlay ! ffmpegcolorspace ! x264enc ! mux. \
d. ! queue ! aacparse ! mux. \
filesrc location=fr.srt ! subparse ! overlay. \
matroskamux name=mux ! filesink location=vid.mkv

I'm trying to burn the subtitles to the video. I have succdeded to read the file with the subtitles but the above pipeline stuck and I have this message :

queue_dataflow gstqueue.c:1243:gst_queue_loop:<queue0> queue is empty

What's wrong with my pipeline? What the queue element do? I haven't really understood what it said in the doc.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 22453

Answers (2)

Frederick Steven
Frederick Steven

Reputation: 140

A queue is the thread boundary element through which you can force the use of threads. It does so by using a classic provider/consumer model as learned in threading classes at universities all around the world. By doing this, it acts both as a means to make data throughput between threads threadsafe, and it can also act as a buffer. Queues have several GObject properties to be configured for specific uses. For example, you can set lower and upper thresholds for the element. If there's less data than the lower threshold (default: disabled), it will block output. If there's more data than the upper threshold, it will block input or (if configured to do so) drop data.

To use a queue (and therefore force the use of two distinct threads in the pipeline), one can simply create a “queue” element and put this in as part of the pipeline. GStreamer will take care of all threading details internally.

Upvotes: 3

Sebastian Dr&#246;ge
Sebastian Dr&#246;ge

Reputation: 2143

The queue element adds a thread boundary to the pipeline and support for buffering. The input side will put buffers into a queue, which is then emptied on the output side from another thread. Via properties on the queue element you can set the size of the queue and some other things.

I don't see anything specifically wrong with your pipeline, but the message there tells you that at some point one of the queues is empty. Which might be a problem or not. It might become fuller again later.

You'll have to check the GStreamer debug logs to see if there's anything in there that hints at the actual problem. My best guess here would be that the audio queue running full because of the encoder latency of x264enc. Try making the audio queue larger, or set tune=zerolatency on x264enc.

Also I see that you're using GStreamer 0.10. It is no longer maintained since more than two years and for new applications you should really consider upgrading to the 1.x versions.

Upvotes: 23

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