(fwd) Re: [gst-devel] audio/raw float caps format

[Andy Wingo]

Another irritating lost mail...

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> From: Andy Wingo <wingo at pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: [gst-devel] audio/raw float caps format
> To: gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Mail-Followup-To: gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> 
> > - I'd like a generic name for the property, buffer size negotiation seems
> > like we would want it in a lot of places. (I'd want it in audio/x-mp3 for
> > example). "buffer-units", "units" or something.
> 
> <selfish>
>  I've thought about this for int audio -- although maybe it wouldn't be
>  required like i'd like it to be for float... I don't care so much about
>  other formats ;)
> </selfish>
> 
> > - I'd like to be able to write a plugin that doesn't support this property
> > and just spews out buffers the size it likes (even varying sizes).
> > It would then be easy to write a "bufferresize" or whatever element that
> > reassembles the buffers to the right size, so that these two were
> > compatible.
> 
> Yes, but this breaks synchronous execution in the
> audiosrc ! ... processing ... ! audiosink. You really need to have the
> same buffer size in the system.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> wingo.

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