[Gstreamer-openmax] Proposal of new implementation

[Felipe Contreras]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Benjamin Gaignard
<benjamin.gaignard at linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1) I use bellagio only for the first tests on my desktop before going on
> "real" world  (I mean on the ARM device from TI, STE or Freescale or
> anyother with openmax components).

Oh, ok.

This sentence might need reworking then:
All vendors use OMX bellagio core and have OMX audio/video decoder/encoder.

> 2) Most of the ARM devices don't have hw decoder/encoder with MMU
> capabilities (and yes it is a shame) so we have to take of that, and the
> "share buffer" hack doesn't in this case.

All the ARM devices I've seen do. What would you do for the big
buffers needed for 12mpx or 1080p then? Reserve 40M of RAM out of the
system memory?

> 3) about gst_pad_alloc_buffer: you are right is it a problem with ring
> buffer, and Rob comments also suggest that isn't a good idea...

Ok, fortunately that's the easiest to fix.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras