Up until recently, when using hlscmafsink, if you wanted to move to a new playlist you had to stop the pipeline, modify the relevant properties and then go to PLAYING again.
This was problematic when working with live sources because some data was being lost between the state changes. Not anymore!
A new-playlist signal has been added, which lets you switch output to a new location on the fly, without having any gaps between the content in each playlist.
Simply change the relevant properties first and then emit the signal:
hlscmafsink.set_property("playlist-location", new_playlist_location);
hlscmafsink.set_property("init-location", new_init_location);
hlscmafsink.set_property("location", new_segment_location);
hlscmafsink.emit_by_name::<()>("new-playlist", &[]);This can be useful if you're capturing a live source and want to switch to a different folder every couple of hours, for example.