[gst-devel] GstBuffer metadata

[Stefan Kost]

hi,

Tomasz Grobelny schrieb:
> I'm new to GStreamer but I've read a bit of documentation and still have some 
> unanswered questions. Namely: is it possible to associate arbitrary metadata 
> with given GstBuffer? I would like to tag each packet with priority 
> information depending on it's type (for example audio with higher priority 
> and video lower). Then I would use this metadata in different plugin that 
> will transmit GstBuffers to network (eg. dccpsinkserver). The metadata should 
> be ignored if given plugin cannot understand it. Would that be possible? 
> Thanks in advance,

there is some discussion about exactly that feature on
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/BufferMetadata

Maybe you can add your usecase there.

Stefan