Want to know how many nanoseconds, seconds, or minutes are in your audio or video file? Want to know your current time position while listening to your audio or video file? There are two super useful methods provided in the Gstreamer framework to answer these two questions (examples are using the Python language):

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The Gstreamer framework is multi-threaded, which means it runs in a different thread (or many threads)... and thus you can not directly communicate with it via Python. Requests have to be sent to the pipeline, and they are completed as soon as possible. However, it goes both ways. When Gstreamer wants to communicate with your ...