[gst-devel] caps nego

[David Schleef]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:44:07PM +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> 
> > > Just something that runs, where each element
> > > is able to find a format it can use to talk to the next element.
> > 
> > This is what happens.  16x16 at 1 fps _IS_ a workable format,
> > because all elements involved support it.  If the core doesn't
> > magically come up with your preferred format, _you_ need to
> > do something about it, not the core.  The currently format
> > optimization code is very simplistic, and thus is wrong a lot.
> 
> ... but the elements involved have a clear preference for fixating to
> 320x240 by 30 fps, yet the core isn't smart enough to pick this up.  I'd
> say that if the elements can't make this clear to the core and the core
> goes for 16x16 at 1 fps, clearly this is not ideal given the information
> present in the pipeline.

Aren't you restating what I just said?

I've outlined what to do _now_ in an application (instead of
complaining), and also how to add features to the core to make
things nicer for apps.



dave...