Sometimes we get questions about if GStreamer can scale to handle really complex pipelines. Well thanks to Kipp Cannon and his talk at this years GStreamer Conference we know have the answer.
They are part of a research project called LIGO which is doing researching gravitaional waves, which can be described as ripples in the fabric of space-time. Kipp is part of the LIGO Data Analysis Software Working Group which has develop a what the call gstlal.
P.S. You might want to download and view the following with an image viewer application as the browser struggles to render it in any detail :)
Anyway, to make a long story short, their pipeline looks something like this image (created with the built in graph dump functionality of GStreamer using graphviz).
If you ever seen a bigger pipeline please let me know :) Also it should alleviate any concerns you might have about GStreamers scalability.
Wow, you broke both Safari and Chrome with that image!
Uch, can you please put that warning in front of your image link? :-D
ok, done :)
Hmm…. which image viewer actually can handle that picture? Eog and ImageMagick’s display both failed on it.
Shotwell works well for me.
isn’t it a question of RAM, rather than a question of software? Eog worked fine here.
Impressive pipeline!
Ha, it works on my N9! Also, are the gravitational waves represented visually in the pipeline graph? If so, there’s probably an easier solution. :-)
“which can be described as ripples in the fabric of space-time”
eddies in the space-time continuum? :P
Poor Eddy. :)
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The pipeline rendering reminds me of DNA and biological processes somehow. The complexity is absolutely amazing!