[gst-devel] Re: [gst-cvs] thomasvs gstreamer: gstreamer/gst/

[Andy Wingo]

On Fri, 31 May 2002, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> +++ gstformat.h	31 May 2002 08:51:32 -0000	1.2
> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
>    GST_FORMAT_SAMPLES 	= 3,
>  
>    /* video related */
> -  GST_FORMAT_FRAMES 	= 4,
> +  GST_FORMAT_FRAMES 	= 4,  /* can also be used for compressed audio */
>    GST_FORMAT_FIELDS 	= 5,
>  } GstFormat;

frames in the l-a-d audio world means one sample from each channel. this
is much more useful than 'samples', i suggest we remove 'SAMPLES' and
replace it with something like FRAMES. it's really a shame that 'frames'
is so over-abused...

actually, i take that back. an audio 'frame' is more analogous to a
video 'frame' than a 'frame' in the sense of mp3, etc. so i vote to
revert this change, and use some other concept of 'frame' for mp3s, and
to make frames a GstFormat that is common both to audio and video. any
objections?

wingo.