<DIV>Thanks again.  I originally planned on implementing the analysis as a Gstreamer plugin, but the documentation on writing Gstreamer plugins is so sparse and partially incomplete.  I'll give it a shot if someone could point me to some examples or better documentation on Gstreamer plugins. Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas@apestaart.org> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">> Thanks! I appreciate your help and advice. Let me describe what I'm > working on so that everyone can make some comments on whether my > approach is ok. > > I am building an application that takes in some audio and does > some analysis on the raw audio. The application then makes certain > decisions based on the results of the analysis. There are many ways > of doing this particular analysis, so this application will have its > own plugin system so that people can write new analysis algorithms. > > The reason I wanted to use Gstreamer was to conveniently get audio > from different sources. If I understand your comments correctly, you > are suggesting that instead of my application having its own plugin > system, I should just write plugins for Gstreamer to perform the > analysis? Hi Quan, yes, that's what we're saying. Of course, it depends on the kind of analysis you want to do. But by writing only the analysis plugins that take in audio in some raw form and transform it, you can use the whole GStreamer framework for your input (and possibly signalling) part, and concentrate on writing the analysis code. In return, we can benefit by making your plugins available to all GStreamer applications. Depending on what it is you want to do, it makes more sense to do it as a plug-in, and there are examples of this as well. Thomas Dave/Dina : future TV today ! - http://davedina.apestaart.org/ <-*- thomas (dot) apestaart (dot) org -*-> Say what you mean or you won't mean a thing to me <-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*-> URGent, best radio on the net - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.fm/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list gstreamer-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21486/*http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph//spsimplenol?.file=ny_ts_splash.html">Get your photo on the big screen in Times Square</a>