[gst-devel] Overwriting files in sinks

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Samstag, den 29.09.2007, 13:38 +0300 schrieb Stefan Kost:
> shouldn't this be done as a GInterface? Then an application can reliably detect
> that it supports it.

How would this interface look like? Can interfaces contain signals?

Am Samstag, den 29.09.2007, 19:38 +0100 schrieb Tim Müller:
> This issue is also being discussed in
> 
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334290
> 
> just in case you haven't seen that yet.

Thanks, didn't know about this one yet :)

IMHO this should get it's own interface though as GstURIHandler
is for sources and sinks but this would only be useful for sinks.

> > For 0.11 this should be changed in gnomevfssink as this way the app has
> > to know about GnomeVFS unfortunately.
> 
> In 0.11 gnomevfssink will hopefully have been replaced by giosink.

Right, would be surprised if gnomevfs was still used at that time :)

> > Does anybody have better ideas? Otherwise I'll go ahead and implement
> > this in filesink and giosink.
> 
> It would IMHO be good if a solution was found that didn't require the
> application to check the actual type of the element in order to know
> what the second argument is.

What about a new signal then that all elements implement with gchar*
as second parameter? gnomevfssink would only have two signals for the same
then.

> Also, emitting a signal is a bit evil, even if it's usually not going to
> be emitted from a streaming thread in this case, since applications will
> probably show a confirmation dialog from the signal callback and run a
> main loop via gtk_dialog_run() or similar, which means there's at least
> the potential for all kind of reentrancy issues that an application
> developer is unlikely to expect.  Not sure what a better solution would
> be though.

Right, but other options do we have? A GstMessage would be nice but we
need to get feedback from the application somehow...
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