The fact that a decoder is not compatible with the fixed sink
is currently happenning in the case where we have hardware accelerated
video decoders on the system (especially vaapi elements that are actually plugged),
and the user is providing a sink that doesn't support the surface.
A simple example that shows how it used to crash on a system where gstreamer-vaapi
is installed:
gst-launch playbin2 video-sink=xvimagesink uri=/codec/supported/by/vaapi
What we are now doing in this case, is avoid using the accelerated
decoder and plug a "normal" decoder instead (if avalaible).
This commit doesn't handle the case where we have hardware accelerated
demuxing.
The condition is if the muxer doesn't have tag setter *and* isn't
a formatter itself. Any of those two conditions makes the muxer
good enough to not need a formatter.
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().
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.
