[Bug 678402] Device discovery/listing replacement for GstPropertyProbe

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678402
  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | 0.11.x

Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> 2012-06-19 13:16:11 UTC ---
Indeed. I have to find some time to write down my thoughts / requirements for
this.

I think there are a couple of issues we need to / want to solve:

 - generic device discovery

 - device-specific information, with things like
   caps, display-friendly names, more type info
   (is it a camera or a TV capture card or ..?)

 - not necessarily bound to a particular API (like e.g.
    v4l2 or alsa), but the whole API should be driven
    from what a possibly cross-platform application
    would typically want, e.g.: give me a list of cameras

 - should create the element suitably-configured from
   the discovered device info

This is all still a bit vague I guess, but the way I see it it's a bit like a
mini-HAL with device-specific API instead of something super-generic. There are
only so many different types of device classes people are interested in for
multimedia stuff. There was more, but I can't remember right now.

Perhaps I can find time at GUADEC to hack together some prototype.

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