[gst-devel] [gst-cvs] msmith gst-plugins-base: gst-plugins-base/ gst-plugins-base/gst/playback/

[Michael Smith]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de> wrote:
> hi,
>
> msmith at kemper.freedesktop.org schrieb:
>> CVS Root:       /cvs/gstreamer
>> Module:         gst-plugins-base
>> Changes by:     msmith
>> Date:           Fri Jun 20 2008  18:24:39 UTC
>>
>> Log message:
>>     * gst/playback/gstplay-marshal.list:
>>     * gst/playback/gstplaybin2.c:
>>       Add get-video-pad, get-audio-pad, get-text-pad action signals to
>>       playbin2. This allows the user to get to the selector's sinkpads, and
>>       thus inspect a range of things - caps, tags, etc.
>
> Why action signals and not read only properties?

As discussed on IRC, this follows what we're doing with the get-*-tags
signals (which we might deprecate in favour of these new signals and
the 'tag' property on these pads).

Properties don't fit because there's an argument to select which
stream you're interested in.

Mike