[gst-devel] scale-renegotiation

[Benjamin Otte]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, David Schleef wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:16:47PM +0100, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, David Schleef wrote:
> >
> > > Caps negotiation is one of the things in GStreamer that works really
> > > well when it's implemented correctly.
> > >
> > ... ! videoscale ! { queue ! xvideosink }
> >
> >
> > And do it on SMP.
> > Does it work?
>
> No.  Neither does forward caps negotiation.  What's your point?
>
That the current system for caps negotiation (not the caps itself but the
way the negotiation is done) needs serious rethinking. And that includes
the question if it should support revers caps nego or not.

It might make transition to a threadsafe system worse if we allow it...

Benjamin