[Gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 117692] New - docs/random/mimetypes needs updating

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http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117692

Changed by in7y118 at public.uni-hamburg.de.

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+Bug#: 117692
+Product: GStreamer
+Version: HEAD CVS
+OS: Linux
+OS Details: 
+Status: NEW   
+Resolution: 
+Severity: normal
+Priority: Normal
+Component: documentation
+AssignedTo: gstreamer-maint at bugzilla.gnome.org                            
+ReportedBy: in7y118 at public.uni-hamburg.de               
+QAContact: gstreamer-maint at bugzilla.gnome.org
+TargetMilestone: HEAD
+URL: 
+Summary: docs/random/mimetypes needs updating
+
+The current documentation leaves out 2 important issues:
+1) boundaries
+2) media-specific offset
+
+1) boundaries
+There are implicit assumptions in nearly all plugins about where you may
+split a stream into buffers. Video often does 1 frame/buffer, raw audio
+does channelcount samples per buffer and so on.
+
+2) media-specific offset
+GstFormat and GstBuffer specify a "media specific" offset/format. For every
+mimetype there needs to be documentation on what they mean.
+
+
+Apart from that, it needs to get out of docs/random and into the official
+documentation.