[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 577050] [winks] Added property probe interface

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577050
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-bad | git

Ole André Vadla Ravnås <ole.andre.ravnas> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Ole André Vadla Ravnås <ole.andre.ravnas at tandberg.com> 2010-11-01 13:37:52 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Looks like something along these lines has been committed by oleavr:
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/commit/?id=700f70e7a5a6ae6eed5ea6026ab5901a4c05aff1
> 
> but it doesn't look entirely correct (the interface is really awful, no doubt):
> "device-name" is by convention a read-only property that will return a
> human-readable string for the device selected via some other property (usually
> a "device" property, here maybe "device-path" and/or "device-index"). This is
> to work around the limitation of the property probe interface that it can only
> return one value per probe, and not a set of values such as device + device
> name.
> 
> So unless devices are primarily selected via the "device-name" property, this
> looks bogus, and it should be some other property that's probable.

Spot on. The right thing to do here would be to use "device-path", as it is the
only unambiguous way to specify a device. So the current implementation is
indeed horribly broken. I'll fix this.

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