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

[Krzysztof Konopko]

Thanks Josep. Top work. I was able to build it with gstreamer-1.0
without any problem.
We'll definitely give it a go and play with it a bit.
>> From: Josep Torra <n770galaxy at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: implementing timeshifter - is GstIndex going to be ever public again?
>> Date: 28 October 2012 10:54:52 GMT
>> To: Discussion of the development of and with GStreamer <gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
>> Reply-To: Discussion of the development of and with GStreamer <gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've ported yesterday the Fluendo's timeshift element to 1.0. It
>> builds but it's just barely tested. The code is commited in our svn
>> trunk.
>>
>> $ svn co https://core.fluendo.com/gstreamer/svn/trunk/gst-fluendo-timeshift
>>
>> For the time being I've opted by a local copy of a ripped GstIndex but
>> I would like to replace it for something else at some point.
>>
>> Persitence of the index was in my mind from the begining, I was
>> thinking on some sort of memindex <--> fileindex conversion schema.
>>
>> Also what's missing is being able to remove index entries in the
>> memindex when the ringbuffer is just using memory and past data stream
>> is discarded. It could be implemented in the local copy of GstIndex
>> now.
>>
>> In order to support more forms of timeshifting I've designed it as a
>> base class and derived the mpegts as initial example use case.
>>
>> Another use case which would be more codec agnostic would be the
>> "cbrshifter" which would just seek in TIME by interpolating with an
>> estimated input data rate (assumes that stream is constant bit rate)
>> and also resolve downstream seeks in BYTES. I'll try to implement that
>> one at some point.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Josep
>>
>> On 26 October 2012 15:19, Krzysztof Konopko
>> <krzysztof.konopko at youview.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Are there any plans to make GstIndex API public again? It was made
>>> "private" about a year ago.
>>> Or is it considered deprecated in the long term without any views to
>>> become public again?
>>>
>>> I've seen all instances of that API across gst-plugins-* commented out.
>>>
>>> The reason I'm asking is that I'm looking into Fluendo Timeshifter which
>>> has it's core functionality underpinned by GstIndex API. Is there
>>> anything else you'd suggest to use instead GstIndex which this plugin
>>> could be ported to?
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kris
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