It's almost pointless and makes little sense as subclass might
want to modify refcount of the object or so. And all subclasses
are already casting them to non-const version as well.
In a general sense, we need to avoid passing refcounted object
with const qualifier.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1238>
Some decoding APIs support delayed output for performance reasons.
One example would be to request decoding for multiple frames and
then query for the oldest frame in the output queue.
This also increases throughput for transcoding and improves seek
performance when supported by the underlying backend.
Introduce support in the mpeg2 base class, so that backends that
support render delays can actually implement it.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1013>
boolean return value is not sufficient for representing the reason
of error in most cases. For instance, any errors around new_sequence()
would mean negotiation error, not just *ERROR*.
And some subclasses will allocate buffer/memory/surface on new_picture()
but it could be failed because of expected error, likely flushing
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1019>
