[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 590014] Future of parsers

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------- Comment #1 from Sebastian Dröge  2009-07-29 11:29 UTC -------
About a year ago David Schleef proposed something for the future of muxers and
parsers (look at the gstreamer-devel list). In short the plan was:
a) Let parsers output different formats and convert between them. There would
be one format that contains all information needed for putting the codec into
MP4, one format for Matroska, etc.
b) Let muxers only accept it's special format.

This would solve this bug, would remove specific codec handling inside the
muxers and would simplify a lot of code while making the parsers only slightly
more complex.


Also parsers could support a "simple" format, which would be like the format
that most parsers nowadays output: A framed and timestamped stream of buffers +
useful caps.


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