[gst-devel] new plugin: fakefilter

[Jason Toffaletti]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 07:55 +0200, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 02:46, Jason Toffaletti wrote:
> > I've created a new Gstreamer plugin that I call fakefilter. Right now it
> > just passes all data through it unmodified, but it emits signals inside
> > the chain and change state callbacks.
> 
> Isn't this the same thing that identity does?

identity doesn't emit a signal inside change-state, and I had planned on
giving fakefilter the option of modifying the data. I wasn't aware of
identity before, is there some documentation on plugins besides
gst-inspect?

> > I tried a few different methods before arriving at this solution. At
> > first I tried using tee's to split the pipeline and then connect a
> > fakesink with a hand-off signal to access the data. This had problems
> > because it would "see" seeking from demux plugins, making it difficult
> > to use the data serially. I was able to successfully hack around this
> > using buffer timestamps and/or positions, depending on the pipeline, but
> > it didn't seem like a very clean solution. I briefly tried to implement
> > a "static" GstElement inside my application and use g_object_new() to
> > create it, but I'm using gst_parse_launch() to create my pipelines, so I
> > needed a registered plugin and it doesn't look like there is anyway to
> > register a GstElement without there being an actual plugin.
> 
> Actually, there are. All core elements (bin, thread, pipeline, queue)
> are registered like this. Gst-rec also uses it for some internal
> elements. It's not necessary to use this, but just FYI. ;).

Thanks, I was given contrary information in the irc channel :)

> > Does this sound like something Gstreamer is interested in?
> 
> I guess, but how does it differ from identity?
> 
> Ronald
>