[maemo-developers] Reliably Getting Position Information From Gstreamer

[From: Nick Nobody]

Hello,

I'm trying to figure out if there's a bug in Maemo's gstreamer or if I'm
doing something wrong. It seems that if I seek too many times in rapid
succession gstreamer will report a false position (normally 0) when
query_position is called.

I hacked together a sample player[1] that demonstrates this behavior
(from the pygst tutorial example 3.1). Once the file starts playing
seek_from_current is called once every 0.1 seconds. On a regular Linux
desktop it works perfectly, but on Maemo the song will end up being
reset to 0 every few seconds (this is because query_position is
reporting a wrong number that's 0 or close to it).

Am I missing something? Is there a specific message I must wait for
before querying the player again? Or is this just a bug?

Thanks,

nick

[1] http://nikosapi.org/stuff/gst-seek-test.py