gstreamer/docs/design/part-TODO.txt

API/ABI
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- implement return values from events in addition to the gboolean. This should
  be done by making the event contain a GstStructure with input/output values,
  similar to GstQuery. A typical use case is performing a non-accurate seek to a
  keyframe, after the seek you want to get the new stream time that will
  actually be used to update the slider bar.

- make gst_pad_push_event() return a GstFlowReturn so that we can resend
  NEWSEGMENT and other events.

- GstEvent, GstMessage register like GstFormat or GstQuery.

- query POSITION/DURATION return accuracy. Just a flag or accuracy percentage.

- add some sort of time/frame stepping functionality, either with a flag on
  the seek event or some new seek event type. The idea would be to operate on
  the current playback position instead of the current configured segment when
  doing the seek.
  Idea is that frame stepping forwards can be done in the sinks, ie, just
  dropping N frames/time, sending more complicated queries upstream which can
  ideally handle those cases more efficiently too.

- use | instead of + as divider in serialization of Flags
  (gstvalue/gststructure)

- rethink how we handle dynamic replugging wrt segments and other events that
  already got pushed and need to be pushed again.

- keep track of seeks with a counter so that we can match seek events received
  in the demuxer srcpads. This is needed because a normal seek on a pipeline
  will send the seek event on all sinks, which results in the demuxer receiving
  the seek twice. If there is no way to see that the seek is the same, it will
  perform the seek twice.
  It would also be nice to have this same sequence number in the segment event
  that resulted from the seek so that everything seek related can be tracked
  properly.

- When an element goes to PAUSED there is no way to figure out the running time
  when this happened. One could think that we can store this time in the
  base_time field of the element but that causes problems when the element is
  still using the base_time before really PAUSING. We seem to need a new element
  field for this. The running time when an element is paused can be usefull to
  clip late buffers instead of prerolling on them.


IMPLEMENTATION
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- implement more QOS, see part-qos.txt.

- implement BUFFERSIZE.

- implement pad_block with probes.


DESIGN
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- unlinking pads in the PAUSED state needs to make sure the stream thread is not
  executing code. Can this be done with a flush to unlock all downstream chain
  functions? Do we do this automatically or let the app handle this?