[gst-devel] "bounties"/...

[Stefan Kost]

Hi Josh,

> 
> So I suppose next we should discuss where to start in the process of
> adding MIDI support to GStreamer. Some thoughts:
> 
> - Should we use the GStreamer devel email list for discussion of this
> topic?
Yes!
> - Defining GstMidiEvent is step one and getting it encapsulated in
> GstData.
> - GStreamer MIDI could be modeled after the ALSA sequencer, since its
> pretty sweet.
> - The MIDI proposition document you gave me the link for above mentions
> that blank events need to be sent at regular intervals, this seems
> hackish. A proposal was in there for control type pads, has this been
> created yet?
The probelm is, that gstreamer is currently processing continous data like audio
and or video, but not instructions to generate audio or e.g. video.
The data is fundamentaly different. Audio e.g. ist a continous stream od data,
but for midi the is only data when there is soemthinbg to do.
> - Some thought needs to be put into the idea of immediate MIDI events
> versus queued (emitted at a specific time) events.
> 
> It seems like this is not much code initially and it will help get things
> started. I'll get myself up to speed on current GStreamer CVS and API so I
> can be of more help in actually coding on this. Cheers.
> 	Josh Green

ciao
 Stefan
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