API breakage in tsparse/tsdemux?

[Edward Hervey]

Hi,

On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 23:21 +0900, Akihiro TSUKADA wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a project that modifies tsparse/tsdemux and uses them from python
> scripts, and recently ported it from gstreamer 0.10 to 1.0.

  I wonder how you were able to use those messages from python. A lot of
the contents can't be used due to pygobject.

> Soon 1.2 was released and I found that tsparse/tsdemux changed
> the way how they report [P]SI data and they do not post messages
> with parsed PSI items any more.

  Yes, they are now available via the Gst.MpegTS library (just import
it). You'll even be able to access more information that you were able
to with the old structure system.

> So I have to port my script again from 1.0 to 1.2.
> But since the release note mentioned API compatibility to 1.0.x
> and the change was introduced after 1.0,
> I wish the new tsdemux/tsparse would be renamed (or the old ones
> wouled be restored with new names) to keep the old API.
> Is there any possibility of this in a future release?

  No.

> 
> regards,
> akihiro
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Edward Hervey
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