Clutter uses gstreamer playbin to implement the video texture actor. I
think gstreamer playbin uses one thread per pad. So you will see some 5
threads if you are using any gstreamer actors and opening a mp4 file.

-Ashwin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emmanuele Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:32 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [clutter] Threading and Process model in clutter
> 
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 16:24 +0100, dilip devaraj wrote:
> > Hello Clutter
> >
> > I was executing the test-depth program  ,in this a clutter_init call
> > is made which in turn makes use of clutter_threads_init () call.
> 
> I'm fuzzy on the whole "clutter_init call which makes use of
> clutter_threads_init()"; you mean you are calling
clutter_threads_init()
> yourself, right?
> 
> > 1)How do I make sure how many threads are created at any point of
time
> > in clutter ? Do I have to set any environment variable ,because if I
> > do a
> > ps -el in command prompt it shows only a single thread ie the the
> > application process thread
> 
> Clutter is not internally threaded: every thread you might see is a
> thread you are creating.
> 
> > 2)Is there any way I can find out what thread or processes are
created
> > internal to clutter for intercation with pango ,cairo, gstreamer .
> 
> Pango, Cairo and Clutter are not internally threaded.
> 
> GStreamer uses threads internally. you should refer to the library
> documentation.
> 
> ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
> 
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