[Bug 742918] v4l2: Add decoder and converter element with RW device property

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742918

--- Comment #20 from Michael Tretter <m.tretter at pengutronix.de> ---
I rebased the patches on current master.

The point of this patch series is to make gst-launch pipelines more readable.
For example, the following pipeline uses the added property to find the v4l2 by
name:

gst-launch [...] ! v4l2videodec device=/dev/v4l/by-name/coda-decoder ! [...]

With the existing mechanism, the same pipeline would look as follows, which I
consider less readable.

gst-launch [...] ! v4l2video9dec ! [...]

Of course, auto-detection is still preferred. However, decodebin, playbin, etc.
will continue to use the v4l2videoCdec elements. Therefore, I do not see, why
this mechanism should use the device monitor to be more generic unless you
would want to remove the sub-classing mechanism.

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