GES meaning of "preview"

[Thibault Saunier]

Hi,

In GES the "preview" term is, in contrast to "rendering", a mode where
the goal is to display the streams locally rather that rendering
(meaning encoding/muxing) it in a file.

A merge request to enhance the documentation about that is welcome :-)

Regards,

- Thibault

On Fri, 2022-10-14 at 02:37 -0700, amindfv--- via gstreamer-devel
wrote:
> GES refers fairly often to "preview"ing, for example,
> `ges_pipeline_preview_{get,set}_{audio,video}_sink`.
> 
> In idiomatic usage I think of the term "preview" as implying a rough
> draft, perhaps not high-resolution or high-accuracy (in detail or in
> time), or otherwise not high-caliber. Is this correct? Or is it
> simply synonymous with playback, as opposed to offline render?
> (Though if that's the case, can't e.g.
> `ges_pipeline_preview_set_video_sink` set the media to write out to a
> file, for example?)
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom