[gst-devel] sample caching

[Benjamin Otte]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Colin Walters wrote:

> Well, maybe it's a bit of over-engineering, but it might be nice to be
> able to easily cache a short Vorbis file on a sound server that only
> supports e.g. wav.  So you'd call gst_audio_framework_get_cache_sink,
> and then set up a pipeline with it.  If your sound server does Vorbis,
> then you can cache the compressed version too.  All of this could be
> hidden behind a simpler interface like GstPlay does.
>
OTOH you want to reuse stuff that has previously been cached by a
different application. You don't want to cache
"/usr/share/sounds/menu-clicked.ogg" in every gnome app, but just once.
No clue how to easily do that though.

Benjamin