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| Some collected notes porting plugins to GStreamer 0.9. |
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| * General notes |
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| Consider using the base classes. There are base classes for sources, |
| sinks, and "transformers", which are plugins that have the same caps on |
| their source and sink sides. |
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| These base classes offer interfaces that are much more appropriate to |
| the function of specific plugins than the general GstElement interface. |
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| * Functions that changed |
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| ** gst_pad_use_explicit_caps |
| ** gst_pad_set_explicit_caps |
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| Not needed; just set the caps on the first buffer you push out. |
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| ** gst_element_set_loop_function |
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| Use gst_pad_set_loop_function. Note that loop-based elements participate |
| more in the scheduling process in 0.9, so you'll need to add hooks to |
| the activate function to start up a task. |
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| refcounting: |
| _get_ accessors |
| GValue, GstObject, and refcounts (arrrrgh) |
