[gst-devel] multifilesink and proposal to merge it with filesink

[Zaheer Abbas Merali]

Hi

I just committed multifilesink into gst-plugins.  multifilesink is a 
serial filesink, which creates new files for every time there is a new 
media discontinuity event.  It operates in 2 possible ways, if the 
location argument has a %d, it will replace the %d with an index 
starting from 0.

Also the application can attach to the signal "newfile", and in the 
signal handler the app can set the location for the next file.

My proposal is to merge this with filesink and multifilesrc with 
filesrc.  The multi part of multifilesink does not get activated unless 
a new media discont is received (after the initial one) so would not 
break filesink's normal operation.  Therefore if both 
multifilesink/filesink and multifilesrc/filesrc are merged, the only 
multi plugin for files is multifdsink and that is a parallel plugin 
(writes to multiple fd's simultaneously).  Of course for backward 
compatibility we would need to leave multifilesrc for the 0.8.x series 
but it can be removed when we start 0.9.

I also plan to in the next couple of days fix plugins that dont handle 
new media discontinues like they ought to.

So please give feedback on proposed merger of plugins.

Take Care

Zaheer Abbas