[Bug 733187] integrating the tracer branch

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733187

--- Comment #22 from Stefan Sauer (gstreamer, gtkdoc dev) <ensonic at sonicpulse.de> ---
(In reply to Sebastian Dröge (slomo) from comment #20)
> (In reply to Stefan Sauer (gstreamer, gtkdoc dev) from comment #19)
> > (In reply to Sebastian Dröge (slomo) from comment #18)
> > > Two short questions about the API:
> > > 1) Is it possible to get the pre/post push buffer/event/query instances to
> > > inspect them?
> > 
> > who is 'them'? Sorry I don't understand this?
> 
> The buffers/events/queries :)

Yes the hooks can access all the parameters that are passed. They should not
modify them though.
> 
> > > 2) Should we add API to queue, audio/video encoder/decoder, etc to tell us
> > > to which input buffer an output buffer belongs? Guessing that without help
> > > from elements is not necessarily trivial.
> > 
> > While that sound like a good idea in the first place, I don't think it is
> > generic enough. How would you do that for demuxers? I think in priciple it
> > would be nice but it needs a design so that it actually works. Also I think
> > we can add this later on, right?
> 
> Sure, that shouldn't block merging this, just a thought about a feature that
> seems to be useful to have :) I think the latency tracer module currently
> uses serialized events for doing this?

Yep, and t has a bunch of comments to explain under which conditions the
results make sense.

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