[gst-devel] GstTimeCache intro

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:40:54PM -0700, Erik Walthinsen wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > That mostly sounds OK.  My application has its own data to attach to
> > each bookmark.  i assume i can write my own XML routines for save/load?
> > In other words, a bookmark should not be an opaque object.
>
> Would a single gpointer be sufficient in addition to the timestamp and
> location?  A function pointer would then be called while saving each entry.

Saving it where?

> On the other hand, I'm not certain that the timecache is the best way to
> do this.  It sounds more like you want to build a bookmarking-specific
> data structure with its own timestamps.  The TimeCache is mostly for
> internal mapping done by a parser element, to enable seeking...

So i'd store timestamps separately and the TimeCache separately?  That
sounds OK too.  The main thing is that i need to be able to seek to
arbitrary places in the video stream with minimum latency, maximum
accuracy, and i'm going to be doing this very often.

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