The value is stored as an 8 bit integer, with 0 meaning that there is
not data for this extension. That means that the maximum length is 255
bytes and not 256 bytes.
On the other hand, the one-byte RTP header extensions are storing the
length as a 4 bit integer with an offset of 1 (i.e. 0 means 1 byte
extension length), so here 16 is the correct maximum length.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/6180>
The decision to store the input buffer depends on whether extensions
are to be added to the output buffer, I assume as an optimization.
This creates an issue for subclasses that call negotiate(), where
header_exts is actually populated, from their handle_buffer()
implementation: at chain time, no header extension has been negotiated
yet, which means that we don't add extensions to the first batch of
buffers that comes out.
Keep track of whether negotiate has been called (this is different
from the negotiated field) and always store the input buffer until
then. This fixes the issue while largely preserving the optimization.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/2304>
