[Bug 706061] typefind: improved and extended typefinder for module music

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706061
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-base | git

--- Comment #7 from Carlos Rafael Giani <dv at pseudoterminal.org> 2014-01-08 22:26:37 UTC ---
I wasn't sure about updating modplug's caps. I agree it would be best to update
them, but I was worried about backwards compatibility. When is it okay to
modify caps? Between major version changes (like 1.2 -> 1.4), or minor ones?

I actually do have code for .umx . UMX is just an Unreal package which contains
one field (module music). I wrote an umxparse element with an associated
typefinder. It is part of my nonstream-audio project over at
https://github.com/dv1/gst-nonstream-audio . This project aims to provide a
baseclass for "nonstream" audio, that is, audio data that is loaded/parsed in
full during an initialization step, and afterwards playback commences. In other
words, the polar opposite of streaming music.

Ideally, I would submit this to -bad eventually. OpenMPT would replace modplug
(it is anyway based off modplug, and unlike modplug, it is actively being
maintained). However, it needs some more work.

The umxparse element and umx typefinder are quite separate though. I could
submit these already.

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