Charlie Turner authored Apr 21, 2020 and GStreamer Marge Bot committed Apr 21, 2020

If this is not done, tools like xdot fail with "unexpected char
b'\\'". This is a regression caused by commit
74938f07 (multiqueue: Add stats
property).

The deserialized value coming out of g_object_get_property looks like
this,

$24 = (gchar *) 0x7f560c0046a0 "application/x-gst-multi-queue-stats, queues=(structure)< \\\"queue_0\\\\,\\\\ buffers\\\\=\\\\(uint\\\\)39\\\\,\\\\ bytes\\\\=\\\\(uint\\\\)8
120251\\\\,\\\\ time\\\\=\\\\(guint64\\\\)1460000000\\\\;\\\", \\\"queue_1\\\\,\\\\ buffers\\\\=\\\\(uint\\\\)186\\\\,\\\\ bytes\\\\=\\\\(uint\\\\)838020\\\\,\\\\ time\\\\=\
\\\(guint64\\\\)1984000002\\\\;\\\" >;"

That is immediately looking wrong. I don't know enough about GNOME
serialization details to say with confidence what happened here. It
gets worse after this is sent through g_strescape and then written to
the dot file. Interestingly, dot -Tpng is fine to ignore them it
seems.

Since the stats are by definition verbose, I decided the best choice
to omit them from the dot file, since such details are not of interest
there.

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