[gst-devel] audio/raw float caps format

[Benjamin Otte]

On 29 Jun 2003, Ronald Bultje wrote:

> Lastly, since you seem to know more about audio than me: Thomas told me
> that float audio doesn't have a variable number of channels per pad
> (it's always 1) because the float data goes over different pads per
> channel. Is there any way in which src/sink plugins know which incoming
> pad connections belong to which stream?
> I.e., if I have two stereo float stream connections between two plugins,
> how does the sink plugin know which 2x two of the four pads belong to
> the same stream?
>
Don't remove the channels property from float audio please.
There might be places where it's useful and if someone does just 1 channel
audio, he can use the padtemplate :)

Benjamin