Re: gtkmm and gstreamer

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 16:55 -0400, Christopher Harvey wrote: 
> I'm writing a gtkmm application that uses gstreamer. For gstreamer
> "pipelines" a glib_main_loop has to be running. I saw that
> Gtk::Main::run() is basically a call to gtk_main(). I read the docs for
> gtk_main() and it's a wrapper for glib_main_loops as far as I can tell.
> Does this mean if I call Gtk::Main::run() I don't need to worry about
> calling another main loop for gstreamer from another thread? Can anybody
> share stories/experiences with gtkmm/gstreamer development?

Using Gtk::Main::run() is fine.  gstreamermm has a media example to show
that nothing else is needed:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gstreamermm/tree/examples/media_player_gtkmm

-- 
José