gstreamer pipeline hangs when sink property sync is set to 0 - gstreamer

I am on gstreamer 1.2.4.
I have developed a video sink based on xvimagesink.
When I set the sync property of the sink to 0 the pipeline hangs after displaying a few frames.
I used the following pipeline
gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=test.mp4 ! qtdemux ! h264parse ! avdec_h264 ! myvideosink sync=0
I noticed that even the decoder stops receiveing frames.
This issue occurs even with videotestsrc
gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! myvideosink sync=0
This does not occur with xvimagesink.
What could be the problem?

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