This allows user to be in control of when scaling happens in the pipeline.
It can be plugged as an effect and scaling will be forced to happen in
the effect instead of in the compositor.
Without this, it would not be possible for users to, for example,
crop a video source before scaling to the target source size.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/5735>
Formatters might call "loaded" from the `gessrc` streaming thread
meaning that the `->formatters` field need to be protected.
Several other APIs are called from gesbasedemux, in some radom
thread, so we should ensure that this is all MT. safe, and the API
makes it simple.
Co-authored-by: Philippe Normand <philn@igalia.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/5431>
Allowing better control over the way discovery happens and allowing
us to expose a proper API.
This also adds the potential of implementing more multi-threaded
discovery in a clean way in the future.
This allows us to cleanly expose the new
GstDiscoverer::load-serialize-info signal.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/3911>
