[gst-devel] Use of own buffer_alloc function

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 09:29 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> The filesrc is probably accessing the file with mmap, 

FWIW, filesrc does not use mmap by default, you have to enable that
manually by setting the right properties (this is mostly for error
handling reasons).

> and doing pad_alloc on the demuxer.

Not sure what you mean by that, but I doubt filesrc ever does a
gst_pad_alloc_buffer() downstream, since this doesn't really make much
sense afaics.

Cheers
 -Tim