If they were not ported after 4+ years it seems unlikely that anybody is
ever going to need them again. They're still in the GIT history if
needed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774530
This is useful e.g. if audio buffers should be exactly the duration of a
video frame, or if a audio buffers should never be too large because of
latency constraints.
The element is taking a fractional buffer duration, to allow working
with e.g. 1001/30000 as output duration and it accumulates rounding
errors in the buffer durations and compensates for them by making some
buffers one sample larger than the others.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774689
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson
With contributions from:
Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com>
Matej Knopp <matej.knopp@gmail.com>
Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> (original port)
Highlights of the features provided are:
* Faster builds on Linux (~40-50% faster)
* The ability to build with MSVC on Windows
* Generate Visual Studio project files
* Generate XCode project files
* Much faster builds on Windows (on-par with Linux)
* Seriously fast configure and building on embedded
... and many more. For more details see:
http://blog.nirbheek.in/2016/05/gstreamer-and-meson-new-hope.htmlhttp://blog.nirbheek.in/2016/07/building-and-developing-gstreamer-using.html
Building with Meson should work on both Linux and Windows, but may
need a few more tweaks on other operating systems.