[gst-devel] Use of own buffer_alloc function

[Edward Hervey]

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 13:27 +0100, Daniel James Laird wrote:
> All,
> 
> I am have real difficulty in getting a buffer_alloc function in my sink
>  class that extends GstVideoSink to work. At the moment it does not
>  even appear to be being called!
> 
> I have registered with the base sink i.e
> basesink->buffer_alloc = GST_DEBUG_FUNCPTR(my_buffer_alloc);
> 
> Yet in my sink it seems that the function is not getting called.
> However render is getting called and doing as expected
> 
> The graph I have created is something like this:
> filesrc -> demux -> switch -> queue -> my_audio_sink
>                  -> switch -> queue -> my_video_sink
> 
> The Audio and video sink in my case act as end of line as they are in
>  fact input to my on board embedded decoders etc.  I want to be able to
>  give the demux a buffer so that I can then DMA it into my decoder.  
>  Is this possible? It certainly appeared so in the docs.  

  That's because demuxers don't do downstream buffer_alloc (they don't
need to since the data is already allocated in filesrc).

  Since you're a decoder AND a sink you don't need to implement
bufferalloc.

   Edward

> 
> Any help much appreciated.
> Daniel Laird
> 
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