This reverts commit 11e375486e.
GST_BOILERPLATE() can't define an abstract type and
G_DEFINE_ABSTRACT_TYPE() does not pass the class struct to
the instance_init function and there's no way to get the
class struct of the current type in instance_init().
There's no code whatsoever that uses these macros. If anyone
ever feels the need to resurrect them, we should add them to
gstutils.h in core or libgstaudio or so.
In various use-case you want to dynamically change the framerate (e.g.
live streams where the available network bandwidth changes). Doing this
via capsfilters in the pipeline tends to be very cumbersome and racy,
using this property instead makes it very painless.
With unfixed caps we can't reliably decide if the final caps
are going to be "raw" (e.g. supported by a sink) or not.
We will get here again later when the caps are fixed.
The codec setup headers are a lot more likely to have correct information,
especially as it's easy to remux a skeleton in a file where streams don't
have the same parameters (I've even seen a file with two skeletons).
Still, this is useful in the case we have a codec we can't decode, so we
can at least (theoretically) convert granpos to time, so we discard this
information if the codec setup has already provided it.
This fixes playback on (at lesat) the original archive.org encoding of
"The Night of the Living Dead" (now replaced by another encoding).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612443
The /*< ... >*/ style is only used for public|protected|private,
signal comments use /* signals */. This prevents the some code
parsers/binding generators to be confused by the comment.
If subdrained isn't initialized to FALSE then a chain might think
that its group is drained when in fact it's not and this can cause
a switch too early or even cause a deadlock.
This could happen when testing with navseek, and pressing
right and left at roughly the same time. The current chain
is temporarily moved away, and this caused the flush events
not to be sent to the source pads, which would cause the
data queues downstream to reject incoming data after the
seek, and shut down, wedging the pipeline.
Now, I can't really decide whether this is a nasty steaming
hack or a good fix, but it certainly does fix the issue, and
does not seem to break anything else so far.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621897
