vaapidecode is used in vaapidecodebin and it exposes all the
theoretically supported caps, but that slows down autoplug. With this
autplug is negotiated faster, giving more option to decodebin to select
other decoder.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1405>
Instead of defining a sized array for function signature, use it
unsized (a pointer alias, basically). In this way clang warning is
silenced:
warning: ‘fill_profiles’ accessing 64 bytes in a region of size 12 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1357>
... in favour of dep.get_variable('foo', ..) which in some
cases allows for further cleanups in future since we can
extract variables from pkg-config dependencies as well as
internal dependencies using this mechanism.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1183>
For monorepo build and ugly/bad, for advanced feature
option API like get_option('xyz').required(..) which
we use in combination with the 'gpl' option.
For rest of modules for consistency (people will likely
use newer features based on the top-level requirement).
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1084>
