record activity can only record one video

[dsd]

As of latest git (users/dsd/record 1cde6c884):

Record activity can only record one video per session. When you try to record the next one, a frame gets frozen on screen during recording, and when you click the stop button, nothing gets saved.

[dsd]

I think this is a gstreamer bug, that or I'm doing something wrong. http://marc.info/?l=gstreamer-devel&m=121562099110189&w=2

[gregorio]

Milestone Never Assigned deleted

[dsd]

I found and fixed the bug preventing my isolated test case from working: http://marc.info/?l=gstreamer-devel&m=121804618419812&w=2

However record still doesn't record more than 1 video :( next step is to isolate the bug again.

[kimquirk]

Looks like a blocker to me as it is a serious regression from previous release.

[gregorio]

Hi Guys,

I agree this is a blocker. Record is probably our most popular activity.

Who is working on this?

Thanks,

Greg S

[dsd]

I am, as I posted here yesterday.

p.s. no need to CC the bug reporter or owner.

[dsd]

filed the gstreamer bug on upstream bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546955

[dsd]

As pointed out by a gstreamer developer, my record code (and test case) was badly behaved in that it did not let the streams flush before terminating the pipeline. Fixed that in record git, and this also avoids the bug I found with my earlier test case.

But we still can't record more than one video! My test case breaks again when it is brought closer to what record actually does (i.e. capturing audio too, capturing video from the webcam rather than a test source). I don't have any idea where to start digging into this one. http://marc.info/?l=gstreamer-devel&m=121848539729018&w=2

[cscott]

Does your gstreamer patch help issues, even with your new record code?

This is at risk of becoming a relnote for 8.2. We need progress towards a fix soon if it's going to make the train.

[dsd]

The patch never fixed record, it just was one step in the process. Now that record has been modified it is not needed (although is still perhaps valid), and we're left with other bugs which are much harder to fix.

My next steps are to look into using the gstreamer that we shipped in update1. I need koji before I can continue with that.

[dsd]

I can fix this quickly if we're OK with going back to an old gstreamer: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-August/018331.html

[jmatthew]

this patch fixes it for me

[jmatthew]

The patch I just attached fixes this issue for me, on a fairly recent joyride build.

Theoretically, reusing GStreamer elements is supposed to work, but often it doesn't.

[dsd]

fixed by reverting gstreamer and record code, need to add to 8.2

[cscott]

We should keep this bug open so that the patch above doesn't get lost when we unrevert gstreamer.

dsd, I assume the packages affected are the same as for #7887?

[dsd]

correct

[cscott]

Added to the stable build stream; will be in 758.

Careful about closing this bug, though; we'll need to fix these problems "for real" in 9.1.

[dsd]

This is working in 759, created #8322 for the real fix