Gstreamer support in HAL?

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:57 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> I'm not sure if we should add such a amount of information to HAL. IMO 
> gstreamer should hold the information but not HAL. At least such key/property 
> values are somehow bloated also because you have devices with >= 48 of such 
> lines:
> 
> <append key="gstreamer.capabilities" type="strlist">video/x-raw-yuv, 
> width=(int)176, height=(int)144, framerate=(fraction)25/1, 
> format=(fourcc)I420</append>
> 
> This fill the memory permanently with information which may never needed. Is 
> there no way for userspace tools to probe/get this info? 
> 
> I would currently vote against add these fdi files to HAL atm. 

I tend to agree with Danny on this topic...

     David