RFC on gst-omx patches

[Tim Müller]

On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 19:21 +0100, Christian König wrote:

Hi Christian,

many thanks for the patches! Any chance you could you put them into
bugzilla [*] to make sure they don't get lost? That's where we usually
track patches instead of the mailing lists. Thanks!

Cheers
 -Tim

[*] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/bugs/

> sorry that I spammed the list without further notice, those patches got 
> out before I could compose a mail for them.
> 
> While working on open sourcing the UVD/VCE support for AMD Radeon 
> hardware we implemented an OpenMAX based state tracker in mesa and 
> additional to that made a few changes to gst-omx to better support our 
> use case. The result are the following seven patches:
> 
> gstomxvideodec: fix multithreads negotiation problem
>      This is a bugfix, please review and if approved apply upstream.
> 
> gstomxvideodec: remove dead code
> gstomxvideodec: simplify _find_nearest_frame
> gstomxvideoenc: simplify _find_nearest_frame
>      Those are code cleanups which simplify the following patches to add 
> new funtionality.
> 
> omx: improve tunneling support
> omx: add tunneling support between decoder and encoders
> gstomxvideoenc: implement scaling configuration support
>      Those patches implement new functionality and are mostly a request 
> for comments. Does they fit into the gst-omx design? etc...

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Tim Müller, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com