Rework some caps operations so they don't rely on writable caps but instead take
ownership of the input caps and do _make_writable() only when needed.
Remove some const from caps functions, it does not make much sense for
refcounted objects and does not allow us to return a refcount to the const input
caps.
Rework the base classes fixate vmethods to not operate on the caps in-place.
All this saves us around 30% of caps and structure copy and new operations.
Mention that elements implementing GstMixer and GstTuner need to be
in the right state before they can be used. Also mention GLib
functions for converting filenames to and from URIs.
Fixes#602877.
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* docs/manual/advanced-position.xml:
* docs/manual/basics-bins.xml:
* docs/manual/basics-bus.xml:
* docs/manual/basics-pads.xml:
* docs/manual/intro-gstreamer.xml:
* docs/manual/intro-preface.xml:
Some Application Development Manual fixes thanks to
Andrew Feren. Fixes#558459.
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* docs/manual/basics-data.xml:
Change "event-event interaction" to "element-element interaction".
Fixes#552448. Also fix sample code for seeking and do more 0.8->0.10
updates.
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patch by: Luc Pionchon <luc.pionchon@nokia.com>
* docs/manual/advanced-clocks.xml:
* docs/manual/clocks.png:
* docs/manual/diagrams-clocks.svg:
Add one more image showing different times together with a describing
paragraph. Fixes#547729.
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* docs/manual/advanced-interfaces.xml:
Turn thoughts about HAL into a note-tag. Remove mentioning that is
only used to discover devices.
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* docs/manual/advanced-autoplugging.xml: Add fakesink to example
code to close the pipeline graph. This prevents the program from
printing internal data flow errors.
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patch by: Luc Pionchon <luc.pionchon@nokia.com>
* docs/manual/advanced-autoplugging.xml:
* docs/manual/advanced-threads.xml:
* docs/manual/basics-bins.xml:
* docs/manual/basics-elements.xml:
* docs/manual/basics-helloworld.xml:
* docs/manual/basics-pads.xml:
Add scale factor for pdf output.
* docs/manual/intro-basics.xml:
Switched sections "pads" and "bins" and added a pipeline diagram.
* docs/manual/intro-gstreamer.xml:
Added more info on gstreamer.
* docs/manual/intro-motivation.xml:
Commented out the whole section "current problem", which sounds
historical and somehow osolete; it could be turned in a positive
way and reused to improve the design principles.
* docs/manual/intro-preface.xml:
- Update URLs to library.gnome.org.
- Do not mention GTK+ in preliminary reading (irrelevant).
- Mention Plugin Writer's Manual and further reading only in the
previous section.
- Added a list of most relevant GObject/glib topics.
* docs/manual/Makefile.am:
* docs/manual/bin-element-ghost.fig:
* docs/manual/bin-element-ghost.png:
* docs/manual/bin-element-noghost.fig:
* docs/manual/bin-element-noghost.png:
* docs/manual/bin-element.fig:
* docs/manual/bin-element.png:
* docs/manual/filter-element-multi.fig:
* docs/manual/filter-element-multi.png:
* docs/manual/filter-element.fig:
* docs/manual/filter-element.png:
* docs/manual/gstreamer-overview.png:
* docs/manual/hello-world.fig:
* docs/manual/hello-world.png:
* docs/manual/linked-elements.fig:
* docs/manual/linked-elements.png:
* docs/manual/mime-world.fig:
* docs/manual/mime-world.png:
* docs/manual/queue.fig:
* docs/manual/queue.png:
* docs/manual/simple-player.png:
* docs/manual/sink-element.fig:
* docs/manual/sink-element.png:
* docs/manual/src-element.fig:
* docs/manual/src-element.png:
* docs/manual/diagrams-general.svg:
* docs/manual/diagrams-pipelines.svg:
Removed .fig, added .png counterpart.
Fixes: #539137
