How to reproduce:

1. Start any esd based application (xmms or xine)

2. Start the test
./test somefile.wav

3. After end of somefile playing, the other esd applications will lock until the
test exit or interrupt.

Why I think, that something strange with gstreamer - because I can't reproduce
problem with non-threaded gst play, for example, gst-launch.


test.c:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <gst/gst.h>


int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  GstElement *filesrc, *sink, *spider;
  GstElement *thread;

  gst_init (&argc, &argv);

  if (argc != 2) {
    g_print ("usage: %s <filename>\n", argv[0]);
    exit (-1);
  }

  /* create a new thread to hold the elements */
  thread = gst_thread_new ("thread");
  g_assert (thread != NULL);

  /* create a disk reader */
  filesrc = gst_element_factory_make ("filesrc", "disk_source");
  g_assert (filesrc != NULL);
  g_object_set (G_OBJECT (filesrc), "location", argv[1], NULL);

  sink = gst_element_factory_make ("esdsink", "play_audio");
  g_assert (sink != NULL);

  spider = gst_element_factory_make ("spider", "spider");
  g_assert (spider != NULL);

  gst_bin_add_many(GST_BIN(thread),filesrc, spider, sink, NULL);
  gst_element_link_many(filesrc, spider, sink, NULL);

  /* make it ready */
  gst_element_set_state (GST_ELEMENT (thread), GST_STATE_READY);
  /* start playing */
  gst_element_set_state (GST_ELEMENT (thread), GST_STATE_PLAYING);

  gst_main ();

  gst_object_unref (GST_OBJECT (thread));

  exit (0);
}