[gst-devel] Getting access through custom buffers through subbuffers

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

 Note, I didn't modify gstbuffer, I just added a function that peeks through 
the GstSubBuffer class.

 Regards,
 Arnout

On Tuesday 16 March 2010 01:15:18, Demon Deng wrote:
> I think it is better to write your own videorate plugin or modify
> videorate plugin to support DMAI buffer than modify gstbuffer.
> 
> 2010/3/16 Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
> 
> >  Hoi all,
> >  
> >  I'm currently hacking with the DMAI plugins that use the DSP on the TI
> > 
> > OMAP
> > for video encoding and other transformations.  These plugins require
> > specially allocated DMA buffers to be able to communicate with the DSP.
> >  A custom GstTIDmaiBufferTranport sub-class of GstBuffer is used for
> > that. When the encoder element receives a buffer, it checks whether it
> > is a GstTIDmaiBufferTransport; if not, it memcpy's the data in a DMA
> > buffer.
> > 
> >  Since the memcpy's completely kill performance in my application, I
> >  make
> > 
> > sure that GstTIDmaiBufferTransport buffers are allocated in the
> > beginning of
> > the pipeline.  However, when I insert a videorate element in the
> > pipeline, it creates subbuffers of these.  These are no longer
> > recognized as GstTIDmaiBufferTransport objects, and therefore the
> > physical address of the DMA buffer is not accessible.  Hence, there
> > are memcpy's again.
> > 
> >  To work around this, I've added a function to GstBuffer that checks if
> >  it
> > 
> > is a subbuffer and if so returns the parent buffer.  Does this sound
> > like a good solution?  If so, I'll put it in bugzilla.
> > 
> >  Regards,
> >  Arnout
> > 
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Arnout Vandecappelle                               arnout at mind be
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Essensium/Mind                                     http://www.mind.be
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