Common Linux device drivers API fro GStreamer: trying to figure out

[dv]

On 2012-11-06 09:58, Ilya Arosov wrote:
> Hello all! I've got a simple question to ask: is there anything like
> common interface to devices used or proposed to be used in GStreamer for
> Linux-based platforms? Or is every platform using something different
> and just provides a specific gst filter/bin/pipeline of its own?
>
> By devices I mean HW-specific parts of, say, video processing: demuxing,
> decoding, synchronization.. There are the drivers of these devices, but
> the vendors usually provide quite specific, mostly proprietary API
> (sometimes more than one set, for different application stacks). Is
> there such API intended for GStreamer? Is DMAI something similar to what
> I try to find? Is it used anywhere except TI's ARM devices?
>
>
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Usually, such APIs are wrapped as GStreamer elements. TI does the same 
with its DMAI API.