[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 346563] gstgnomevfssrc doesn't run typefind

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Tim-Philipp Müller changed:

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------- Comment #2 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2006-07-04 16:39 UTC -------
Yet it does not fail in practice with playbin/decodebin, since decodebin will
automatically plug a typefind element.

_If_ gnomevfssrc is supposed to do typefinding, it

 a) should do so properly if pull-mode is supported (with random access)
 b) it should probably work similarly to filesrc, which has a
    "typefind" boolean property which is disabled by default

However, personally I don't really think this is something that needs fixing at
this point. 

And in any case, typefinding a single buffer isn't really enough/possible in
many cases, especially with non-local sources where you might get very small
buffers. The typefind element takes care of that (and of proper error handling
in the EOS-before-we-could-find-a-type case etc.).


I am aware of your bz2dec issue and I know I asked you to change it to do
typefinding, so admittedly there's an inconsistency, but my answer to that
would be that "sources are special" :)

In 0.11/0.12 we might want to do something better here (like
application/x-typefindme caps or something like that).


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