[gst-devel] caps, types, props
Wim Taymans
wim.taymans at chello.be
Thu Dec 7 20:46:06 CET 2000
Just a quick recap of the different responsabilities of the
capabilities, properties and types:
typeids:
- are basically mime-types converted into a guint16
- are the basic types known to gstreamer
- selection of the plugins in autoplugging will occur
with the typeids
properties:
- are used to specify extra properties of the basic typeids
- use ranges/ints/fourcc or lists of those to descibe features
- will be used to describe capabilities and metadata
capabilities:
- a list of typeids with properties
- are attached to pads
- allow fine grained pad matching in autoplugging
- elements will update the caps of the pads as media is
handled.
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