[gst-devel] GstTimeCache intro

Joshua N Pritikin vishnu at pobox.com
Tue Aug 14 18:29:44 CEST 2001


On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:40:54PM -0700, Erik Walthinsen wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > That mostly sounds OK.  My application has its own data to attach to
> > each bookmark.  i assume i can write my own XML routines for save/load?
> > In other words, a bookmark should not be an opaque object.
>
> Would a single gpointer be sufficient in addition to the timestamp and
> location?  A function pointer would the be called while saving each entry.
> 
> On the other hand, I'm not certain that the timecache is the best way to
> do this.  It sounds more like you want to build a bookmarking-specific
> data structure with its own timestamps.  The TimeCache is mostly for
> internal mapping done by a parser element, to enable seeking...

Agreed.  i'll keep my own timestamps and use the TimeCache to seek back
and forth.

Still, i have the problem of reconciling a timestamp with a particular
version of a movie.  i guess we should punt for now and coming up
with a solution later.  :-)

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