Currently the extension data length specified in the RTP header would
say it was shorter then the data serialised to a packet. When
combining the resulting buffer, the underlying memory would still
contain the extra (now 0-filled) padding data.
This would mean that parsing the resulting RTP packet would potentially
start with a number of 0-filled bytes which many RTP formats are not
expecting.
Such usage is found by e.g. RTP header extension when allocating the
maximum buffer (which may be larger than the written size) and shrinking
to the required size the data once all the rtp header extension data has
been written.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1146>
Since the base class now does the parsing, there is no need
to reproduce that code in all the subclasses, just pass the attributes
which are the only relevant bit anyway.
Also, only store the direction if the subclass accepted the caps
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/906>
