[Bug 660760] New: .prs presets needs to have a per-application option

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660760
  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | git

           Summary: .prs presets needs to have a per-application option
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gstreamer (core)
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: Uraeus at linuxrising.org
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---


With the introduction of encodebin the .prs presets have become a lot more
prominent. One thing I realized while working on Transmageddon is that it isn't
really very useful to have system wide presets, at least not for most of what
you want to use presets for with encodebin. For instance if I need a preset to
set a specific bitrate on an encoder, adding that as a gstreamer install wide
preset is just messy. And trying to namespace presets would just create a very
long preset list and also make adding presets a chore for application
developers.

Instead I suggest an API addition where you can point to an application
specific directory for storing your .prs files, and that the files in this
directory takes precedence of any system ones.That way every application can
create whatever .prs files they find useful.

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