Add a way for applications to specify that the underlying file is
growing which implies that the source won't EOS when reaching the end
of the file but instead start monitoring it and start reading it again
whenever a change is detected.
Also add a validate test to check the behavior
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/-/merge_requests/937>
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson
With contributions from:
Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.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.
From the API documentation: "Note that it is generally not
a good idea to reuse an existing cancellable for more
operations after it has been cancelled once, as this
function might tempt you to do. The recommended practice
is to drop the reference to a cancellable after cancelling
it, and let it die with the outstanding async operations.
You should create a fresh cancellable for further async
operations."
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739132
Try harder to look for gvfs backend changes in the right
place, to make sure the plugin gets reloaded when backends
are removed or installed. We watch the gvfs mounts directory
because the files there contain absolute paths to the
backend executables, and those may not be in the usual gio
path.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747841
When playing mp3 files from a smb server, we get 64k read requests
that mostly overlap. Without using the cache to partially satisfy
these, we send these requests straight to the server, resulting in
a lot more network traffic than necessary.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705415
