[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 257035] New: [MSE][GStreamer] Actually do flushes, unify m_hasAllTracks

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            Bug ID: 257035
           Summary: [MSE][GStreamer] Actually do flushes, unify
                    m_hasAllTracks
           Product: WebKit
           Version: WebKit Nightly Build
          Hardware: Unspecified
                OS: Unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: WebKitGTK
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: aboya at igalia.com
                CC: bugs-noreply at webkitgtk.org

Before this patch, there were two classes having a m_hasAllTracks field:
MediaSourcePrivateGStreamer and MediaPlayerPrivateGStreamerMSE.

This redundancy lead to non-synchronization, and in consequence this was
making flushes not occur on MSE, as
SourceBufferPrivateGStreamer::flush() checked for the one in
MediaPlayerPrivateGStreamerMSE which no code ever set to true.

A visible consequence of this was video was being repeated on quality
changes, due to the lack of flush of old frames.

This patch fixes the issue by keeping the `hasAllTracks` state in one
single place, in MediaSourcePrivateGStreamer.

Note:

The triggering of MSE flushes exposed several bugs on the handling of
flushes in other parts of the code. It's important these are addressed
to avoid regressions in behavior when incorporating this patch:

(1) https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3802
    [GStreamer] MediaPlayerPrivateGStreamer: Abort stale tasks on flushes

    Without this patch, MSE flushes can deadlock.

(2) https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/2413
    appsink: Fix race condition on caps handling

    appsink used to have a race condition on the handling of caps after
    a flush that can cause crashes. A fix is present in GStreamer 1.20.3+.

    A workaround in the WebKit side is possible and desirable to avoid
    headaches in Linux distros, and has been uploaded as:

    https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/3965
    [GStreamer] Introduce workaround for race condition in appsink

(3) https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/3471 
    basesink: Support position queries after non-resetting flushes

    basesink doesn't answer position queries between a FLUSH_STOP with
    reset_time=FALSE and a SEGMENT event until GStreamer 1.24.0, which
    incorporates that patch.

    For backwards-compatibility -- and present-compatibility for that matter
    since GStreamer 1.24.0 has not been released yet, a workaround has been
    Proposed for WebKit:

    https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/14082
    [MSE][GStreamer] Workaround basesink's lack of support for position queries between a non-resetting flush and a pre-roll

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