[Gstreamer-openmax] Support for hardware codecs

[Clark, Rob]

On Feb 22, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Tim-Philipp Müller wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 08:32 -0600, Clark, Rob wrote:
> 
>> On implementation side, what are your thoughts about using libxml2?  It
>> seems a bit overkill, but it is already a dependency of gstreamer
>> core.
> 
> For what it's worth, this dependency only exists for the
> serialisation/deserialisation API that no one really uses (not least
> because we don't recommend that) and which only works partially anyway.
> 
> On many embedded systems GStreamer will likely be built with
> --disable-loadsave and hence without the libxml2 dependency.

GstFileIndex?  does anyone use that?

That said, I don't mind doing something like a simple ini file syntax or some other similar syntax.  Especially if the preference is to reduce dependency on libxml2.  But if the dependency would be there anyways, might as well reuse it.


BR,
-R