[gst-devel] Overwriting files in sinks

[Stefan Kost]

Hi,

Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> Hi,
> I wondered what ways we currently have for overwriting files in sinks
> and what is the prefered way.
> There's a signal that is emitted in gnomevfssink, that apps can hook
> into to ask the user if the file should be overridden, filesink doesn't
> have such mechanism at all.
> 
> The signal in gnomevfssink is:
>   "allow-overwrite" :  gboolean user_function (GstElement* object,
>                                                GnomeVFSURI* arg0,
>                                                gpointer user_data);
> 
> Would it make sense to implement this signal in filesink and giosink
> (and any other file sinks), too? Of course the GnomeVFSURI parameter in
> those other sinks must be changed to something else, i.e. char *
> containing the URI.
> For 0.11 this should be changed in gnomevfssink as this way the app has
> to know about GnomeVFS unfortunately.
> 
> Does anybody have better ideas? Otherwise I'll go ahead and implement
> this in filesink and giosink.
> 
shouldn't this be done as a GInterface? Then an application can reliably detect
that it supports it.

Stefan


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