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docs: update buffer2 draft

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@ -339,6 +339,29 @@ Possible use cases are to make sure we write out the fields with a specific size
and endianness.
Transformations
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After certain transformations, the metadata on a buffer might not be relevant
anymore.
Consider, for example, metadata that lists certain regions of interest
on the video data. If the video is scaled or rotated, the coordinates might not
make sense anymore. A transform element should be able to adjust or remove the
associated metadata when it becomes invalid.
We can make the transform element aware of the metadata so that it can adjust or
remove in an intelligent way. Since we allow arbitrary metadata, we can't do
this for all metadata and thus we need some other way.
One proposition is to tag the metadata type with keywords that specify what it
functionally refers too. We could, for example, tag the metadata for the regions
of interest with a tag that notes that the metadata refers to absolute pixel
positions. A transform could then know that the metadata is not valid anymore
when the position of the pixels changed (due to rotation, flipping, scaling and
so on).
Other use cases
---------------
@ -386,13 +409,35 @@ A scheme like this would still allow us to functionally specify the desired
video resolution while the implementation details would be inside the metadata.
Compatibility
-------------
We need to make sure that elements exchange metadata that they both understand,
This is particulary important when the metadata describes the data layout in
memory (such as strides).
Currently the only way to communicate buffer formats between elements is by
using caps. We would like to use the caps system to negotiate the metadata that
will be put on buffers.
We would like to add to the caps on the buffer (and pad) an array of metadata
structures (as strings) that is on the buffer. This way, an element can
quickly know what metadata to look for.
In order to remain compatibility with older plugins we need to convert buffers
that use metadata to specify a non-standard data layout to the old format. We
need to do this before handing buffers to old elements. We will require elements
that are metadata aware to set a flag on their pads; any buffer passed on that
pad will be converted to the old layout when the flag is not set.
Notes:
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Some structures that we need to be able to add to buffers.
Clean Aperture
Abitrary Matrix Transform
Arbitrary Matrix Transform
Aspect ratio
Pan/crop/zoom
Video strides