Matthew Waters authored May 17, 2018 and Edward Hervey committed Nov 07, 2018

If upstream is pushing buffers larger than our limits, only 1 buffer
is ever in the queue at a time.  Once that single buffer has left the
queue, a 0% buffering message would be posted followed immediately by a
100% buffering message when the next buffer was inserted into the queue
a very short time later.  As per the recommendations, This would result
in the application pausing for a short while causing the appearance of
a short stutter.

The first step of a solution involves not posting a buffering message if
there is still data waiting on the sink pad for insertion into the queue.
This successfully drops the 0% messages from being posted however a
message is still posted on each transition to 100% when the new buffer
arrives resulting in a string of 100% buffering messages.  We silence
these by storing the last posted buffering percentage and only posting a
new message when it is different from or last posted message.