[gst-devel] Request of including gstradiotuner plugin to gst-plugins-*

[Stefan Kost]

hi Alexey,
Am 26.10.2010 20:48, schrieb Alexey Chernov:
> Thank you for these additions, Edward.
> 
> I checked if the same functionality could be added to v4l2src when just began 
> development and found v4l2src more complex and functionally full than plugin 
> needed for FM tuner. But I'll check this once again before opening a ticket.

Edward did not meant that it should be itegrated to the v4l2src element
necessarily. It would be fine if the v4l2 plugin would get a 3rd element
(besides v4l2src and v4l2sink) if that would allow sharing more code from the
plugin.

Stefan

> 
> Also, thanks for suggestion to make the patch against latest git version, 
> things became clearer for me.
> 
> On Monday 25 October 2010 11:20:25 you wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 11:21 +0530, Kapil Agrawal wrote:
>>> The Best way you can have this plugin inside gstreamer repos is by
>>> opening  a ticket in bugzilla & attaching this as a patch.
>>> Respective people will review  & if ok will add in gst-plugins-bad.
>>
>>   In addition, inclusion will be speeded up if you make it available as
>> a patch to gst-plugins-bad, even better if it comes as a git patch (i.e.
>> checkout gst-plugins-bad  git module and integrate your code into it
>> along with the proper Makefile/configure addition as git commits)
>>
>>   If you share a *lot* of code with the v4l2 plugin... it would be
>> better to try to integrate it in gst-plugins-good with the v4l2 plugin.
>> But warning, the quality-levels/requirements for merging something into
>> -good are much higher than for -bad. If you do so, make sure you read
>> the following document for what is expected:
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/tree/docs/random/moving-plu
>> gins
>>
>>    Edward
>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 4:44 AM, 4ernov <4ernov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>         Hello,
>>>         
>>>         a couple of months ago I asked here about GStreamer plugin for
>>>         interacting with FM tuner. Unfortunately I've learned that
>>>         v4l2src
>>>         isn't fit for that purpose and a member suggested me the
>>>         source code
>>>         which implement some of plugin for such a case. I found it
>>>         very useful
>>>         for my problem but it wasn't so GStreamer-style as I would
>>>         like (it
>>>         didn't support GstTuner interface at all, for instance) and I
>>>         decided
>>>         to improve it and upload to Sourceforge here:
>>>         http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstradiotuner/ Soon one user
>>>         who tried
>>>         the plugin reported about the problems and we improved the
>>>         plugin very
>>>         significantly to make it match the rules of V4L2 API in terms
>>>         of
>>>         working with FM tuners. After all the fixes and patches now
>>>         I'm quite
>>>         sure that it's stable enough. On the other side it's quite
>>>         small and
>>>         simple to maintain.
>>>         
>>>         So the question is: could it be included to gst-plugins-*
>>>         package? I
>>>         think many users would expect GStreamer element to interact
>>>         with FM
>>>         tuners, but GStreamer plugins miss such element now although
>>>         it's
>>>         quite simple and I see no reasons why not to provide such
>>>         functionality in official plugins package.
>>>         
>>>         If it's possible I could follow the steps of procedure of
>>>         addition the
>>>         plugin if there's one and maintain the plugin already inside
>>>         the
>>>         gst-plugins-* package.
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