[gst-devel] oggdemux, chained streams and slow sources

[Benjamin Otte]

On Mon, 17 May 2004, Colin Walters wrote:

> Oh, I understand it's necessary on import, but playback is the case
> where users will be annoyed by long delays.  Import happens in the
> background, and it only happens once.
>
Unfortunately the auitoplugger does not know if you have information
available and don't need it or if you're happily querying that information
again.

There is simply no concept of "I don't need feature X from a pipeline" and
there's no reason to for that concept either afaics.

Benjamin