[gst-devel] DVD Navigation progress

[in7y118 at public.uni-hamburg.de]

Quoting Ronald Bultje <rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net>:

> I've proposed this before: each track has its own pad, the pad has a
> name associated with it (possibly two- or three-letter country-codes,
> which can then be i18n'ed by APPS, there's a RFC or ISO spec somewhere
> that describes all of them), and the app then gives a list of all
> available pads with human-readable name and plugs in the right one
> (probably using the switch element).
> 
> audio_00[nl]\
> audio_01[en]-switch-...
> audio_02[de]/
> 
> I'm not sure how perfect this is for autoplugging, but it's definately
> GStreamer'ish. If I want, I need to be able to select multiple of them,
> and that's now possible (think multilingual DVD transcoding).
> 
You'd need to invent a concept of "related pads" for an autoplugger to 
understand that. And to understand it's supposed to use switch there. Or you 
might end up with your autoplugger putting a video and an audio stream into 
switch...