A lot of debug categories are declared in element class_init
functions, which don't get run until the element is first created
(not just registered in the plugin load function). This means
that --gst-debug-help doesn't print out a lot of categories.
Creating an instance of each element from the element factory
makes them visible, at some extra cost - 2-3 times longer, which can
be a full second or two of extra waiting. Yikes!
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741001
It's used by the debugging and tracer subsystem and in various files, make it
a central thing that is initialized independ of the existence of those
subsystems.
DllMain should not be relied on for anything except storing the DLL handle.
It should also not be defined for static builds, but doing so is not
straightforward and is mostly harmless, so let's just add a comment about that
for now.
Do not do any checks for the start/stop in the new
gst_segment_to_running_time_full() method, we can let this be done by
the more capable gst_segment_clip() method. This allows us to remove the
enum of results and only return the sign of the calculated running-time.
We need to put the old clipping checks in the old
gst_segment_to_running_time() still because they work slightly
differently than the _clip methods.
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740575
The GST_INFO ("initialized GStreamer succesfully") is currently at the end of
gst_init_check which isn't guaranteed to be run since GStreamer can be
initialized by using init_pre and init_post directly from GOptionContext like
gst-launch does. Ensure this message is displayed by moving it to init_post.
They are very confusing for people, and more often than not
also just not very accurate. Seeing 'last reviewed: 2005' in
your docs is not very confidence-inspiring. Let's just remove
those comments.
Use the technique that is now done in GTK+ so that the plugins do not have
to be installed in c:\gstreamer\lib\<debug>\gstreamer-$(GSTApiVersion),
but can be installed in
<parent_folder_of_gstreamer_main_dll>\lib\<debug>\gstreamer-$(GSTApiVersion),
or as per g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module() allows.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679115
* fix typo GstBufferFlag -> GstBufferFlags
* fix typo GstFeatures -> GstCapsFeatures
* fix typo GstAllocatorParams -> GstAllocationParams
* fix typo GstContrlSources -> GstControlSource
* do not refer to gstcheck as an object
* make references gtk_init() and tcase_set_timeout() not be references
* gst_element_get_pad() renamed gst_element_get_static_pad()
* gst_clock_id_wait_async_full() renamed gst_clock_id_wait_async()
* _drop_element() is really gst_queue_array_drop_element()
* gst_pad_accept_caps() was removed, do not refer to it
* separate GST_META_TAG_MEMORY_STR declaration from description
* do not describe removed gst_collect_pads_collect()
* correctly link to GstElementClass' virtual set_context()
Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719614
Since the default number of max unused threads in GThreadPool has been
changed from 0 to 2 it needs to be set to 0 to stop all threads or
valgrind will report them as memory leaks.
Before this patch gst_init would intercept --help, causing for example
cheese's --help to look like this:
[hans@shalem cheese]$ cheese --help
Usage:
cheese [OPTION...] - GStreamer initialization
Help Options:
-h, --help Show help options
--help-all Show all help options
--help-gst Show GStreamer Options
gst_init is the only gfoo_init function which does this.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702089
These are meant to specify features in caps that are required
for a specific structure, for example a specific memory type
or meta.
Semantically they could be though of as an extension of the media
type name of the structures and are handled exactly like that.
The function init_pre() in gstreamer/gst/gst.c calls setlocale(LC_ALL, ""),
which sets the locale to the values specified in the environment. This is
wrong for two reasons:
1. It is absolutely not the task of a library to decide on the correct locale
for a program. Some programs change the locale for various (good or bad)
reasons, and libraries should respect that. Programs where GStreamer's
overwriting of the locale causes bugs include Emacs [1, 2], Sublime Text [3],
and Lua [4].
[1] http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12392
[2] http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779426
[3] http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8543
[4] https://github.com/pavouk/lgi/issues/19
Note that setting the locale can cause problems for programs that are not even
linked against GStreamer. In the case of Emacs, for example, GStreamer seems
to be initialized through GTK via libcanberra.
2. Setting the locale is not thread-safe, and therefore should not be done in a
library.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685650
This is because we need to be able to signal different TOCs
to downstream elements such as muxers and the application,
and because we need to send both types as events (because
the sink should post the TOC messages for the app in the
end, just like tag messages are now posted by the sinks),
and hence need to make TOC events multi-sticky.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678742
