From fa19b264bcddcde3a15d7f62a6a8123935796ea7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Zwoch <fzwoc@dolby.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 11:48:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] upon start: wait (best effort) for the SHM socket to appear
 befiore trying to read from it.

---
 gnome-screencast.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnome-screencast.c b/gnome-screencast.c
index 84192c7..d9f846a 100644
--- a/gnome-screencast.c
+++ b/gnome-screencast.c
@@ -215,6 +215,16 @@ static void start(data_t* data)
 
 	data->frame_count = 0;
 
+	for (gint i = 0; i < 100; i++)
+	{
+		if (g_file_test(obs_data_get_string(data->settings, "shm_socket"), G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS) == TRUE)
+		{
+			break;
+		}
+
+		g_usleep(10000);
+	}
+
 	gst_element_set_state(data->pipe, GST_STATE_PLAYING);
 }