| Face it, the plugins/ directory hierarchy is crap. We want to propose a |
| better layout for it now. Some things to consider: |
| - Elements have a klass member in the factory that is used to |
| denote the functional type of the element. For example, the |
| mp3 encoder has a klass of Codec/Encoder/Audio |
| - The plugins can be grouped together by the media type they |
| operate on or by the way they work (decoder/encoder) |
| In GStreamer all plugins are techically filters, the only way they |
| can be considered sources or sinks (input/output) elements is |
| by the absence of src/sink pads. At first sight the source/filter/ |
| sink distinction is quite useless because most of the plugins |
| will go into the filters category anyway. |
| We don't want to make the hierarchy too deep, yet provide a |
| clean way to ask for a mp3 decoder element.. |
| Anyway this is a rough proposal to fire off the discussions... |
