[gst-devel] [gstreamer] Problem with pulling data from a sink pad

[iain]

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 17:17 +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> > mmapping huge data to disk so that I can jump around it at will
> > without having to send a seek event, run the pipeline to get 2 frames of
> > data, send another seek event, run pipeline again...
> 
> Again.  What are you doing to jump around at will ? Why could this not
> be done through plugins that map streams to temp disk storage ? Sounds
> like a useful thing to have in GStreamer for NLE's.

Oh, and yes, it does sound like a good thing to have
But the problem is that so often applications want data stored in very
specific ways/formats that I don't think its worthwhile making one
generically.

iain
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