[Bug 685249] add audio to tab-separated values encoder

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685249
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-bad | unspecified

Kipp <kcannon> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Kipp <kcannon at cita.utoronto.ca> 2014-02-26 21:04:40 UTC ---
Created an attachment (id=270419)
 View: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=270419
 Review: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/review?bug=685249&attachment=270419

add tsvenc element to debugutilsbad plugin

rework of tsvenc patch.

 * add filter constraint to caps negotiation
 * add documentation (sort of)
 * passes gst-indent check

with respect to documentation, I can't figure out how to incorporate the
documentation into the build.  this patch takes a stab at it, but it's not
correct.  can I get help with this?

with respect to the request to configure the delimeter, the "tab-separated
value" format is strict that the delimeter be the tab character (not
whitespace, not "any number tabs", but 1 tab).  allowing the delimeter to be a
comma would make this also a CSV encoder, so I can see the desire to provide
that generalization, but the problem with comma-delimited fields and numerical
data is that some locales use "," as the separator between integer and
fractional parts of numbers.  the column count and column boundaries in a
CSV-format file containing purely numerical data is ambiguous because of this
(unless the locale is known).  are there use cases where the tab-separated
value format would not be suffiicent?

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