[gst-devel] missing "--disable-index" option, in gstreamer-0.10.21

[Stefan Kost]

hi,

Sameer Naik schrieb:
> Thanks for your prompt reply.
>
> I read this comment made:
> "Disabling the indexers and URI handler code will only reduce the required 
> amount of memory by a very small amount"
>
> Is it a fact that an extremely small amount of memory is used. Does this hold 
> true for embedded application's where memory becomes an important parameter.
> Say i am playing a 2Gb video file. won't indexing the entire file take up quite 
> a chunk of memory?
>   
I am on a embedded system as well. There are a couple of thing that we
can improve on the 0.11 timeframe regarding the structure of the
gstreamer core library. But keeping to many things optional also puts a
lot of hassle into maintenance. Regarding the index feture, it will
probably be used by more plugins in the future and thus it became less
attractive to allow disabling it.
> Secondly which version onwards was the --disable-index option removed 
>   
Have a look at the ChangeLog.

Stefan

> Regards
> ~Sameer
>
> On Monday 01 December 2008 19:11:31 Sebastian Dröge wrote:
>   
>> Am Montag, den 01.12.2008, 18:40 +0530 schrieb Sameer Naik:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>> I just realized that "--disable-index" compilation option (to disable
>>> indexing for seeking purposes) in on longer available in
>>> gstreamer-0.10.21, has it been removed from gstreamer? if so since
>>> when and why?
>>>       
>> It has been removed intentionally, yes. The relevant changeset was:
>>     
>>> 2008-07-31  Sebastian Dröge  <sebastian.droege at collabora.co.uk>
>>>
>>>         * configure.ac:
>>>         * docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt:
>>>         * docs/gst/gstreamer.types:
>>>         * docs/gst/gstreamer.types.in:
>>>         * gst/Makefile.am:
>>>         * gst/gst.c:
>>>         * gst/gstbin.c: (gst_bin_class_init), (gst_bin_set_index_func):
>>>         * gst/gstconfig.h.in:
>>>         * gst/gstelement.c: (gst_element_get_index):
>>>         * gst/gstregistrybinary.c: (gst_registry_binary_save_feature),
>>>         (gst_registry_binary_load_feature),
>>>         (gst_registry_binary_read_cache):
>>>         * gst/gstregistryxml.c: (load_feature),
>>>         (gst_registry_xml_read_cache), (gst_registry_xml_save_feature):
>>>         * plugins/Makefile.am:
>>>         * tools/gst-indent:
>>>         * tools/gst-inspect.c: (print_index_info), (print_element_list),
>>>         (print_plugin_features), (print_element_features):
>>>         * tools/gst-xmlinspect.c: (print_event_masks),
>>>         (print_element_info):
>>>         * win32/common/gstconfig.h:
>>>         Remove GST_DISABLE_(ENUMTYPES|INDEX|URI) everywhere.
>>>
>>>         Disabling the indexers and URI handler code will only reduce the
>>>         required amount of memory by a very small amount but on the other
>>> hand requires much more maintaince work. Apart from that many places of
>>> code are broken when disabling them.
>>>
>>>         Disabling the enum types doesn't reduce the required amount of
>>> memory by more than a few bytes and makes it hard to fix bugs like
>>> #539772, i.e. use the enums as GObject properties.
>>>       
>
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