[gst-devel] vorbis / theora caps

[David Schleef]

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:04:50PM +0200, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2004, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> 
> > Well, for now, the only codec that would use it is ogg, so it seems sort
> > of overheady to me. You could just as well put the code in ogg(de)mux,
> > save up to two elements for a simple playback pipeline and thereby
> > decrease latency, no?
> >
> Ogg does not know about caps. It uses typefinding. So it can't put its
> buffers into caps.

So if it doesn't have this information, it likewise would not know
how to mark buffers as header buffers.



dave...