It's almost pointless and makes little sense as subclass might
want to modify refcount of the object or so. And all subclasses
are already casting them to non-const version as well.
In a general sense, we need to avoid passing refcounted object
with const qualifier.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1238>
Delay decoders downstream negotiation just before an output frame
needs to be allocated.
This is required, are least for H.264 and H.265 decoders, since
codec_data might trigger a new sequence before finishing upstream
negotiation, and sink pad caps need to set before setting source pad
caps, particularly to forward HDR fields. The other decoders are
changed too in order to keep the same structure among them.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1257>
Using GstBaseDec hack to access the parent_object of each element in
the element itself is a bit fragile. It would be better to keep its
own parent object as the usual global variable. It would make it
resistant to code changes.
The GstBaseDec macro to access the parent object now it's internal to
base decoder.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1257>
boolean return value is not sufficient for representing the reason
of error in most cases. For instance, any errors around new_sequence()
would mean negotiation error, not just *ERROR*.
And some subclasses will allocate buffer/memory/surface on new_picture()
but it could be failed because of expected error, likely flushing
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1019>
