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

[Benjamin Otte]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Ronald Bultje wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > Can I ask why it's a good idea at all to pretend that one file becomes
> > one buffer, and limit ourselves internally this way ?
>
> Image-to-video. ffmpeg -i jpg, jpeg2yuv, everything. This is extremely
> useful for still inserts in DVDs, SVCDs, photo-VCDs and the like. Any
> multimedia toolset has such a tool. If you don't understand its use, then
> you've probably never looked at DVDs and the like. Anyway, I definately
> see its use.
>
1) We have a different methology for this, it's called "new media event"
2) It's not a multifilesrc, it's a put-each-file-in-one-buffer-src
3) It definitely does not belong in the core, as it is a special
"image-to-video" plugin and not general purpose.
4) The functionality of this plugin belongs into a filter, but not into a
filesrc. Something that collects all buffers until new-media, merges them
and then spits out a buffer. So you can actually use this with gnomevfs,
kio and other soures people come up with.

Benjamin