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Wim Taymans
51cbf22624 This is a megapatch with the following changes:
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This is a megapatch with the following changes:

- moved the gchar *name to GstObject, removed the ones in GstElement and
GstPad.
- moved the parent handling completely into GstObject. This cause *all* of
the plugins to fail (except those that used gst_pad_get_parent)
- rearanged the XML save handling.
- GstObject now has a class function save/restore_thyself.
- GstObject has a generic method gst_object_save_thyself, this makes it
possible to fire a signal wehever a new object is loaded. This is needed
so we can add XML save hooks.
- GstXML API has changed slightly. You now have to create a GstXML object
first before you can actually load something. This makes it possible to
attach a signal to GstXML whenever an object is loaded. I'm not sure we
will keep this interface.
- GstObject can now print the path_string without knowing about the GstPad and
GstElement types.
- Added gst_bin_get_by_name_recurse_up to lookup an element in the current
element hierarchy.
- added XML namespaces to the saved pipelines the namespace is:
http://gstreamer.net/gst-core/1.0/
namespaces are needed to distinguish user generated XML from the core XML.

Note that the plugins still contain a macro GST_OBJECT_PARENT that will be
replaced with gst_pad_get_parent shortly.
2001-01-29 00:06:02 +00:00
Wim Taymans
75aa948e0c Docs updates
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Docs updates
Added XML load from memory functionality
Undid the videosink patch, something else is wrong now on my machine:
no MMX acceleration :-(
2001-01-21 23:20:46 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
4a5ed7bf58 Got ghostpads to work, even in -launch. Needs more testing still.
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Got ghostpads to work, even in -launch.  Needs more testing still.
2001-01-20 02:57:46 +00:00
Wim Taymans
9b3f1277ce API docs updates
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API docs updates
2001-01-19 22:15:21 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
74f8050844 Major cleanup of the latest ghostpad changes. Fixed everything that broke, correctly. Someone will want to go updat...
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Major cleanup of the latest ghostpad changes.  Fixed everything that
broke, correctly.  Someone will want to go update the API doc templates.
2001-01-19 09:37:32 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
c31f9a570c First pass at updating to new ghostpad system. The objects are in place,
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First pass at updating to new ghostpad system.  The objects are in place,
I now need to go and get all the Bin end of things worked out.  Testing
should be fairly easy, at least for verification.

Everything I've tried so far works with no changes, with is amazing.
That's just cool.  Once again we rewrite an entire subsystem, and nothing
else notices anything but the new features ;-)
2001-01-19 02:23:35 +00:00
Wim Taymans
90f82b6840 Added mthodes to request an element to create pads: gst_element_request_pad*
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Added mthodes to request an element to create pads: gst_element_request_pad*
This can be used to construct a tee and a muxer/mixer/aggregator element.
Moved the tee element to elements/ because it can now be handled with the
new pad request features.
The padfactory also has some changes: a pad can now be of presence REQUEST,
which means that the pad can be requested from this plugin (doh).
2001-01-18 23:46:15 +00:00
Richard Boulton
41ebd85275 Fixes to work with libxml2.
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Fixes to work with libxml2.
Also improved a couple of debugging messagse.
2001-01-18 11:16:53 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
9ca8248cc2 Massive build fixup. Will send message to -devel list later with details on the changes and what they mean for Makef...
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Massive build fixup.  Will send message to -devel list later with details
on the changes and what they mean for Makefile.am writers.  Check
docs/random/omega/build/TODO for a list of things that I had to make sure
of.

NOTE: this requires a complete rebuild of all plugins, since I also
changed the STATE enum to a bitfield instead of sequential numbers.
2001-01-14 21:55:41 +00:00
Wim Taymans
22c9d0f1a6 include parser.h instead of gnome-xml/parser.h untill xml-config is fixed...
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include parser.h instead of gnome-xml/parser.h untill xml-config is
fixed...
2001-01-13 13:51:08 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
558e9f4308 renamed private to element_private, to make obvious its usage restrictions
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renamed private to element_private, to make obvious its usage restrictions
2001-01-11 22:09:29 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
60daf21ed4 added gpointer private to pads, so elements can store ints or pointers for their own use
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added gpointer private to pads, so elements can store ints or pointers for their own use
2001-01-11 22:03:01 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
759d83e487 Rearranged cothreads sources a bit, added some API docs.
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Rearranged cothreads sources a bit, added some API docs.
Added some functions needed for gstreamer-inspect.
Added num_sources to fakesink.
2001-01-04 10:54:27 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
45f05bf6ed Made gst_pad_eos_func a non-static function
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Made gst_pad_eos_func a non-static function
2001-01-03 20:40:26 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
9a0438ba93 Started work on better ghostpad management, and started to build the low- level EOS mechanism.
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Started work on better ghostpad management, and started to build the low-
level EOS mechanism.

Also removed a couple of printouts that aren't needed any more.
2000-12-31 22:18:05 +00:00
Wim Taymans
bc4619a44b Added multiple caps to the pads
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Added multiple caps to the pads
Extended the padfactory for the multiple caps
GstCaps now have a name so that future manipulations on them can be done by name
Updated the plugins for the new caps list
2000-12-31 16:12:48 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
ca1c48e95c Updated copyright in all the libgst files.
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Updated copyright in all the libgst files.
Created gst_private.h, set up all files to use it.
2000-12-28 22:12:02 +00:00
Wim Taymans
9655c3b593 Updated the API docs.
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Updated the API docs.
2000-12-28 21:42:23 +00:00
Wim Taymans
41aa51ba45 Fixes for the new scheduler.
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Fixes for the new scheduler.
Autoplug works again with mp3/mpeg1/ogg
2000-12-28 00:18:26 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
c287566d0c Massive scheduling changes (again). Not entirely complete, but getting closer. Need to think about various scheduli...
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Massive scheduling changes (again).  Not entirely complete, but getting
closer.  Need to think about various scheduling plans that we might want
to produce, and figure out the rules for what is legal, and how to get
the results we need as far as the plan.
2000-12-20 09:39:43 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
da03fde054 WARNING: Don't grab this updated unless you're really, REALLY sure.
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WARNING: Don't grab this updated unless you're really, REALLY sure.
WARNING: Wait for the next one.

Whole lotta changes here, including a few random bits:

examples/*/Makefile: updated to use `libtool gcc`, not just `gcc`
gst/
gstbuffer.h: updated to new flag style
gst.c, gstdebug.h: added new debugging for function ptrs
gstpipeline.c: set type of parent_class to the class, not the object
gstthread.c: ditto
plugins/
cdparanoia/cdparanoia.c: added an argument type, updated some defaults
cobin/spindentity.c: updated to new do/while loopfunction style
mp3encode/lame/gstlame.c: argument types, whole lotta lame options
tests/: various changes

Now, for the big changes:  Once again, the scheduling system has changed.
And once again, it broke a whole bunch of things.  The gist of the change
is that there is now a function pointer for gst_pad_push and gst_pad_pull,
instead of a hard-wired function.  Well, currently they are functions, but
that's for debugging purposes only, they just call the function pointer
after spewing lots of DEBUG().

This changed the GstPad structure a bit, and the GstPad API as well.
Where elements used to provide chain() and pull() functions, they provide
chain() and get() functions. gst_pad_set_pull[region]_function has been
changed to get_pad_set_get[region]_function.  This means all the elements
out there that used to have pull functions need to be updated.  The calls
to that function have been changed in the normal elements, but the names
of the functions passed is still _pull[region](), which is an aesthetic
issue more than anything.

As for what doesn't work yet, just about anything dealing with Connections
is hosed, meaning threaded stuff won't work.  This will be fixed about 12
hours from now, after I've slept, etc.  The simplefake.c test works in
both cothreaded and chained cases, but not much else will work due to the
Connection problem.  Needless to say, don't grab this unless you *need*
these features *now*, else wait to update this stuff until tomorrow.

I'm going to sleep now.
2000-12-16 10:18:09 +00:00
Wim Taymans
a63780a377 Header cleanup: try to include as little as possible; this will probably speed up compilation a bit.
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Header cleanup: try to include as little as possible; this will probably
speed up compilation a bit.
changed the .c files to use #include "..."
Fix for the 'plugins are loaded twice' bug.
Fix 22186: GstObject flags are now used everywhere. Added *_FLAG_LAST so
elements do not use the same flags. Added some padding in the flag enum
for future expansion.
2000-12-15 01:57:34 +00:00
Wim Taymans
196c67d7ff Changed the GstPadFactory and added the GstPadTemplate.
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Changed the GstPadFactory and added the GstPadTemplate.

The GstPadFactory is an easy way to define a pad with capabilities.
The GstPadFactory is converted into a GstPadTemplate. The template is
used to create new pads and to expose the possible pads used in an
element to the plugin system.

updated mp3parse, mpg123, cdparanoia to the new API.
Rerun gstreamer-register because the XML definition has changed.
2000-12-13 19:29:35 +00:00
Wim Taymans
d78215be9d More Caps changes, this change introduces the padfactory. the GstPadFactory will be used to describe the pads that an...
Original commit message from CVS:
More Caps changes, this change introduces the padfactory. the GstPadFactory
will be used to describe the pads that an element will contain during
its lifetime.
mpg123 and mp3parse serve as an example.
More XML changes to incorporate the padfactories.
2000-12-12 19:29:43 +00:00
Wim Taymans
6fa6cd8ce4 First attempt at rebuilding the type/plugin system
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First attempt at rebuilding the type/plugin system
- make sure caps/props are saved in the registry
autoplugging is completely broken.
removed the typefactories and typeids from all the pads in the plugins
XML load/save is ok (be sure to rerun gstreamer-register)
2000-12-11 00:04:25 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
6ba0668cd8 Snapshot of work-in-progress do deal with out-of-bin elements. Current system is very likely going to be ditched due...
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Snapshot of work-in-progress do deal with out-of-bin elements.  Current
system is very likely going to be ditched due to its complexity and the
fact that it doesn't work right now.  More than that, it's generating some
really odd results in my test program, which aren't readily explainable.

If you want to keep a working copy of your working copy (heh), don't update
until this is replaced with a hybrid approach.  This approach will be the
beginning of a plan generator that can construct full hybrid schedules
given hints from various places.

Hybrid means that cothreads are used, but there are chunks of the pipeline
that are actually dealt with by chaining. This can improve speed by
reducing cothread switches (which are much cheaper than thread switches,
but still far from free, about 570 cycles on my PIII), but does carry a
complexity burden.  Luckily, the structure of GStreamer allows that burden
to live entirely in create_plan.  Luck?  I think not ;-)
2000-12-09 09:13:09 +00:00
Wim Taymans
cd24b35b70 Added pullregion in again, it got removed with the previous commit.
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Added pullregion in again, it got removed with the previous commit.
2000-12-08 18:24:16 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
04c360e39f Changed the way things are scheduled, especially sources. A Src used to have a push() function, and optionally a pus...
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Changed the way things are scheduled, especially sources.  A Src used to
have a push() function, and optionally a pushregion() to deal with async
reads, etc.  That whole thing has gone away, in favor of providing a
pull() function for the output (Src) pad instead, ala chain functions.
This makes constructing cothreaded schedules out of non-loop elements
somewhat easier.  Basically there was always a question as to which pad
was being dealt with.  In the pullregion case, cothread-specific data was
used to try to pass the region struct to the right place, which is a slow
hack.  And in general, the push function severely limited the kind of
tricks that could be played when there's more than one output pad, such as
a multi-out file reader with async capabilities on each pad independently.

This changes the way cothread scheduling occurs.  Instead of the hack to
deal with Src's by calling their push() function (or optionally the
pushregion(), in certain cases), we now are working towards a general
mechanism where pads are the only thing that are dealt with directly.

An optimization was made in the process of doing this: the loopfunction
actually run as the outer [stack] frame of the cothread is now set more
intelligently in create_plan() based on what kind of element it is.  We
now have:

loopfunc_wrapper: used for loop-based elements, it simply calls the
loopfunc in a loop, paying attention to COTHREAD_STOPPING (see
below).  It currently does other, soon to be depracated, stuff.

pullsrc_wrapper: wraps a Src that's not loop-based (since your options
are now loop- or pull-based)

There will be a couple more to deal with other cases, such as Connections
and chain-based elements.  The general idea is that it's a lot more
efficient to make the decisions once in create_plan than to keep doing
this huge if/else chain in the wrapper.  Just choose the right wrapper up
front.  It'll be most apparent performance-wise in the case of whichever
element context is switched to first for each iteration, since the whole
wrapper setup is done for every iteration.

The tricky part is that there is now a bit of overloading of the function
pointers in a pad.  The current meanings (possibly to change a bit more
soon) are:

chainfunc: as always, chainfunc pointer is mirrored between peer pads
(this may change, and the chain func may end up in pushfunc)
pushfunc: SrcPad: gst_pad_pushfunc_proxy, cothread_switch to peer
SinkPad: none (may take over chainfunc, see below) pullfunc:
SrcPad: Src or Connection's function to construct buffers
SinkPad: gst_pad_pullfunc_proxy, cothread_switch to peer

There are a number of issues remaining with the scheduling, not the least
of which is the fact that Connections are still dealt with the old way,
with _push() functions and such.  I'm trying to figure out a way to unify
the system so it makes sense.  Following the scheduling system is hard
enough, trying to change it is murder.


Another useful scheduling addition, mentioned above, is COTHREAD_STOPPING.
It's an element flag that's used to signal whatever code is running in
cothread context that it should be finishing up and exiting soon.  An
example of this is in plugins/cobin/spindentity.c.  All the loops should
now be composed of do/while loops, rather than while(1) loops:

do {
buf = gst_pad_pull(spindentity->sinkpad);
gst_pad_push(spindentity->srcpad,buf);
} while (!GST_ELEMENT_IS_COTHREAD_STOPPING(element));

The reason for this is that COTHREAD_STOPPING may be set before the above
loop ever gets started.  It wouldn't do for the body of the loop to never
once get called, that would simply stall the pipeline. Note that only the
core library code is ever responsible for setting and unsetting this flag.
All elements have to do is respond to it by cleanly exiting the loop and
the function holding it.

This is needed primarily to allow iterations to occur properly.
Basically, there's a single entry point in the cothread scheduling loop,
gst_bin_iterate_func() simply switches to this cothread.  If the element
in this context is allowed to loop infinitely, nothing would even switch
back to the context from which the iterate() was originally called.  This
is a bit of a problem.  The solution is for there to be an implicit switch
back to the originating context.  Now, even I'm not sure exactly how this
works, but if the cothread that's switched to actually returns, execution
returns back to the calling context, i.e. iterate_func().

COTHREAD_STOPPING is therefore set just before switching into this
(currently randomly chosen) context, on the assumption that it will return
promptly after finishing its duties.  The burden of clearing the flag
falls to the various wrapper functions provided by the Bin code, thus
element writers don't have to worry about doing that at all (and simply
shouldn't).


Related changes:
All the sources in elements/ have been changed to reflect the new system.


FIXMEs:
1) gstpipeline.c calls gst_src_push at some point, dunno why, it's
commented out now.
2) any other sources, including vcdsrc, dvdsrc, and v4lsrc will break
badly and need to be modified to work as pull-based sources.
2000-12-04 10:52:30 +00:00
Wim Taymans
4f55ae4ded Added multiple types to the pads.
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Added multiple types to the pads.
Added first preview of the capabilities system.
Autoplugging is seriously broken with these (and other) changes.
2000-12-03 17:51:29 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
726f7d36dc added the ability to disable pads, not quite complete but sufficient for now
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added the ability to disable pads, not quite complete but sufficient for now
2000-11-25 07:02:55 +00:00
Wim Taymans
415ced1c0b Added seeking to the avi decoder by implementing pull_region.
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Added seeking to the avi decoder by implementing pull_region.
Fixes to the asyncdisksrc.
Added thread specific data to the cothreads.
2000-11-06 00:15:51 +00:00
Wim Taymans
9500bd2128 Code cleanup, make it adhere to the Gnome/Gtk+ code formatting, which is quite clean and more readable.
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Code cleanup, make it adhere to the Gnome/Gtk+ code formatting, which is
quite clean and more readable.
Renamed parseavi to avidecoder
Implemented seeking/time display/pause/play/stop/clean exit to gstmediaplay
Added an element flag to indicate that it cannot deal with noncontigous
buffers. If such an element is found in the pipeline, seeking is disabled
for the complete stream (avidecoder cannot deal with seeking until we convert
it to a loop based element with pull_region to fetch the indeces etc...)
2000-11-01 13:49:41 +00:00
Wim Taymans
2521a319c3 MPEG2 types added for better autoplugging. MPEG2 works more or less. fix in autoplugging. avi now works.
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MPEG2 types added for better autoplugging. MPEG2 works more or less.
fix in autoplugging. avi now works.
2000-10-21 12:04:40 +00:00
Wim Taymans
4e7f031df7 Loading and saving of XML pipeline descriptions.
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Loading and saving of XML pipeline descriptions.
GladeXML like operation implemented (you can retrieve parts of a pipeline)
2000-09-27 19:33:10 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
b6d31c1c72 Megapatch, changes which states are available, how they're used, and how they're set. Also modifies the scheduling s...
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Megapatch, changes which states are available, how they're used, and how
they're set.  Also modifies the scheduling system, breaking pulled
buffers.  Check mail archives for more details.
2000-07-17 17:14:15 +00:00
Wim Taymans
9920b88c3f This is the audio/video sync release.
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This is the audio/video sync release.
Changed the mpegvideoparser to parse complete pictures. Added the PTS
timestamps to the pictures.
Added PTS timestamps to the MPEG audio frames.
Made the clock a littlebit better.
Gstplay now uses two more threads one for video, one for audio playback.
Added the first QoS callbacks for the pads.
hopefully fix an mmx compilation problem.
2000-07-12 22:52:42 +00:00
Wim Taymans
a3d5d3a62b Switched Cr and Cb in YUV2RGB fixed the avi parser (gstriff had wrong size) the system_encoder can now do video only ...
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Switched Cr and Cb in YUV2RGB
fixed the avi parser (gstriff had wrong size)
the system_encoder can now do video only system streams
sanitized the colorspace and scaler api.
added fast self modifying asm scaler.
worked on the typefind stuff.
added a cool media player (gstplay) it uses the typefinder to playback
avi, mpeg1 (system and video) streams. It is also a testbed and a real app.
2000-06-25 21:38:00 +00:00
Wim Taymans
bf8c785fb0 Documentation updates. All standard library objects and standard elements are documented. Modified some of the elemen...
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Documentation updates. All standard library objects and standard
elements are documented. Modified some of the elements to more
accuratly report about their arguments so the documentation builds
more reasonable output.
Added aviencoder and jpegencoder elements (not working yet)
2000-03-27 19:53:43 +00:00
Wim Taymans
ef63c32778 This is a rather large patch. Switched on -Wall compiler flag and fixed the warnings.
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This is a rather large patch. Switched on -Wall compiler flag and fixed
the warnings.
Made the Video for Linux more like it should be.
2000-02-27 23:18:38 +00:00
Wim Taymans
c144819530 Added a pull function in the gstpad. Modified the videosink to implement the pull. This function allows a source elem...
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Added a pull function in the gstpad. Modified the videosink to implement
the pull. This function allows a source element to request a buffer
from the destination. This is much more efficient because the
videosink can then pass a buffer with SHM to the element, which does
not require an aditional memcpy.
removed scaling from the videosink. I need something better.
2000-02-26 18:55:14 +00:00
Erik Walthinsen
1762dfbf98 initial checkin
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initial checkin
2000-01-30 09:03:00 +00:00