[gst-devel] tcp elements

[David Schleef]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 06:55:41PM +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> Anyways, in both directions, it might make sense to wrap the buffers
> with a small header giving the buffer length.  That enables the other
> side to reconstruct buffers.  And if we're doing that, we might as well
> also put in timestamp and other info.
> 
> It could be controlled with an enum that was in the old tcp elements for
> something similar.
> 
> What do you think about this approach ?

If you're going to make something like a GStreamer line protocol,
please just make a full-featured line protocol.  (extensible,
discoverable, can eventually handle events, upstream events, caps
negotiation, etc.)



dave...