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

[Ronald Bultje]

Hi,

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Ronald Bultje wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > It's that simple.  Either remove multifilesrc or add in multifilesink.
> > If you don't agree, provide arguments against this.
>
> The two are completely unrelated. They have completely different purposes.
> Don't compare them, it makes us think that multifilesrc ! multifilesink is
> a multifile copier; it is _NOT_.

Just to make it clear: multifilesink does *NOT* write a new file for each
buffer. If it did that, I'd like it in gst-core. This one does something
completely different, it writes new files at specific times on
application-defined conditions.

That doesn't belong anywhere in gst-core, and probably not in gst-plugins
either. See Dave's comments. Also read Havoc's
http://ometer.com/features.html - it is close to what we're discussing
here.

Ronald