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

[Alexey Chernov]

Hi, Stefan,
yes, I've examined the code of v4l2 plugin and mine, there're some shared code 
in terms of low-level work with v4l2 subsystem (i.e. my plugin shares some 
functionality as it's much smaller than v4l2). So now I consider to rewrite my 
plugin on top of v4l2 low-level calls (v4l2_calls.h/c to be exact) and maybe 
add to v4l2 plugin code (as separate element). I can take some time but I hope 
not so long.

And also the question is about complement sink element because I've got only 
src one..

On Friday 29 October 2010 19:26:06 Stefan Kost wrote:
> 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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