implementing timeshifter - is GstIndex going to be ever public again?

[Krzysztof Konopko]

On 26 October 2012, Rob <robert.swain at gmail.com
<http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel>> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 26 October 2012 15:19, Krzysztof Konopko
> <krzysztof.konopko at youview.com
<http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel>> wrote:
>> / I'm also considering to write my own timeshifter plugin which would
take
> />/ advantage of mpegtsparser and queue2. In this situation I would
have to
> />/ implement an "indexer" and a "seeker". In this case the pugin would be
> />/ MPEG-TS agnostic. Is there anything you would suggest to look at
in this
> />/ case?
> /
> A media-agnostic time-shift element would be very welcome by the
> community but it's not an easy task. Do you intend to conduct your
> development efforts openly such that you might be open to community
> input on the design of the solution?
>

Yes, I guess it's not trivial although the work would be driven by a
commercial product needs (YouView set top box). I'd definitely like to
do the work openly.

The draft concept is as follows:

                                +-------+
              +---------------->| queue |-------------------+
             /                  +-------+                    \    +--------+
  +---------+                                                 +-->|        |
->| indexer |                                                     | seeker |
  +---------+                                                 +-->|        |
             \   +----------+                   +---------+  /    +--------+
              +->| filesink |                +->| filesrc |-+
                 +----------+        ___    /   +---------+
                             \     _|_  |  /
                              +-->|   | |-+
                                  |DB |_|
                                  |___|

Originally storing indexes was intended to be handled by queue2 but the
draft above decouples things even further as the index DB source could
be anything (e. g. a pre-built DB on a server with some VOD assets).

P. S.
Apologise for any "confidentiality" footers (I'm working on getting rid
of them).
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