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2008-11-04 Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Add sequence numbers to events and messages. See #559250.
* gst/gstutils.c (gst_util_seqnum_next, gst_util_seqnum_compare):
New functions.
* gst/gstevent.h:
* gst/gstevent.c (_gst_event_copy, gst_event_new): Initialize new
events with a new sequence number, and copy it when copying.
(gst_event_get_seqnum, gst_event_set_seqnum): Accessors for an
event's sequence number.
* gst/gstmessage.h:
* gst/gstmessage.c (_gst_message_copy, gst_message_new_custom):
(gst_event_get_seqnum, gst_event_set_seqnum): As with events, so
with messages.
* docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt: Add new functions to the docs.
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* docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt:
* gst/gstutils.h:
API: Move float endianness conversion macros from libgstfloatcast
to core as it's useful in general, even in core. Fixes bug #555196.
This adds GDOUBLE_FROM_BE, GDOUBLE_FROM_LE, GDOUBLE_TO_BE,
GDOUBLE_TO_LE, GDOUBLE_SWAP_LE_BE, GFLOAT_FROM_BE, GFLOAT_FROM_LE,
GFLOAT_TO_BE, GFLOAT_TO_LE, GFLOAT_SWAP_LE_BE.
Also add GST_READ_ and GST_WRITE_ macros for floats and doubles:
GST_READ_FLOAT_LE, GST_READ_FLOAT_BE, GST_READ_DOUBLE_LE,
GST_READ_DOUBLE_BE, GST_WRITE_FLOAT_LE, GST_WRITE_FLOAT_BE,
GST_WRITE_DOUBLE_LE, GST_WRITE_DOUBLE_BE.
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* docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt:
* gst/gstutils.h:
Always use the unaligned variants of GST_READ_UINT* and GST_WRITE_UINT*
as it's too easy to break the ISO C strict aliasing rules with simple
casts to the corresponding type and this would introduce hard to debug
bugs. Fixes bug #545714.
API: Add GST_READ_UINT24_(LE|BE) and GST_WRITE_UINT24_(LE|BE).
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* gst/gstutils.h: (GST_BOILERPLATE_FULL):
Try to fix 'dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict
aliasing rules' warnings with C++ compilers and GLib >= 2.14.0: GLib
changed the default GType typedef from gulong to gsize at some point,
but kept GType typedef'ed to gulong for C++ for ABI reasons; the
g_once_* functions all take a gsize * though, so work around the type
mismatch for C++ by doing everything in gsize and casting to GType
later.
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* gst/gstutils.c:
* gst/gstutils.h:
API: Deprecate gst_atomic_int_set(), g_atomic_int_set() should be used
now that we depend on new enough GLib.
* gst/gstcaps.c: (gst_static_caps_get):
* gst/gstclock.c: (gst_clock_entry_new):
* gst/gstinfo.c: (_gst_debug_init), (gst_debug_set_colored),
(gst_debug_set_default_threshold), (_gst_debug_category_new),
(gst_debug_category_set_threshold):
* libs/gst/base/gstbasesink.c: (gst_base_sink_init),
(gst_base_sink_set_qos_enabled):
* libs/gst/net/gstnettimeprovider.c:
(gst_net_time_provider_set_property):
Use g_atomic_int_set() instead of gst_atomic_int_set().
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Based on patch by: José Alburquerque <jaalburqu at svn dot gnome dot org>
* gst/gstutils.c: (gst_pad_add_data_probe),
(gst_pad_add_data_probe_full), (gst_pad_add_event_probe),
(gst_pad_add_event_probe_full), (gst_pad_add_buffer_probe),
(gst_pad_add_buffer_probe_full):
* gst/gstutils.h:
* docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt:
* win32/common/libgstreamer.def:
Add gst_pad_add_*_probe_full() functions with a notify callback that
lets the caller free the data it passes to the probe functions. This
is useful for bindings such as gst-python or gstreamermm (#526814).
API: gst_pad_add_data_probe_full
API: gst_pad_add_buffer_probe_full
API: gst_pad_add_event_probe_full
* tests/check/gst/gstutils.c:
Add minimal unit test to make sure freeing the data actually works
as expected.
* tests/benchmarks/.cvsignore:
Random cvsignore addendum.
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* docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt:
* gst/gstclock.h:
* gst/gstdebugutils.c:
* gst/gstinfo.c:
* gst/gstutils.c:
* gst/gstutils.h:
* libs/gst/base/gstbasesink.c:
* tools/gst-launch.c:
Change GST_GET_TIMESTAMP into gst_util_get_timestamp and replace all
uses as we don't have HAVE_POSIX_TIMERS in public headers.
Thanks Tim for spotting.
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Based on patch by: Peter Kjellerstedt <pkj at axis com>
* gst/Makefile.am:
* gst/gstparse.c: (gst_parse_launchv), (gst_parse_launch):
* gst/gstparse.h:
* gst/gstutils.c: (gst_parse_bin_from_description):
* gst/gstutils.h:
Maintain API and ABI when --disable-parse is used. Now that
we have an appropriate error code, we can just return NULL and the
appropriate error when gst_parse_launch() is used despite it having
been disabled (#342564).
* tests/check/Makefile.am:
* tests/check/pipelines/.cvsignore:
* tests/check/pipelines/parse-disabled.c:
Make sure these functions exist and return NULL plus a GError when
--disable-parse is used.
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* docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt:
add new API and fix the build
* gst/gstbin.c: (gst_bin_recalc_state):
* gst/gstelement.c: (gst_element_message_full),
(gst_element_get_state_func), (gst_element_set_state_func):
use new API and improve logging
* gst/gstutils.c: (gst_element_state_change_return_get_name):
* gst/gstutils.h:
API: add function to get StateChangereturn names to improve logs
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* gst/gstutils.h:
Add G_UNLIKELY to our boilerplate to optimise the 'already registered
the type' case. (Closes: #335195 for now). In the future, when we
depend on GLib 2.10, we could also intern the type name using
g_intern_static_string()
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* gst/gstutils.h:
Do proper cast here to make GST_BOILERPLATE_WITH_INTERFACE
usable in c++ code (#333417; patch by: Christophe Fergeau)
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* gst/Makefile.am:
* gst/gstparse.h:
* gst/gstutils.c:
* gst/gstutils.h:
Make things work with --disable-parse as they do with
--disable-load-save - the symbols involved disappear, but the
header is still installed and GST_DISABLE_PARSE is included via
gstconfig.h
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Reviewed by: Tim-Philipp Müller <tim at centricular dot net>
* gst/gstutils.h:
Add prototype for _get_type() function to GST_BOILERPLATE_FULL
macro, so that gcc doesn't complain if the -Wmissing-prototypes
compiler switch is being used (#325429).
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* gst/gstutils.c: (gst_util_guint64_to_gdouble),
(gst_util_gdouble_to_guint64), (gst_util_uint64_scale_int64):
* gst/gstutils.h:
* tests/check/gst/gstutils.c: (GST_START_TEST), (gst_utils_suite):
add tests that seem to show that the guint64/gdouble conversions
are correct.
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* gst/gststructure.c: (gst_structure_get_fraction),
(gst_structure_parse_value),
(gst_structure_fixate_field_nearest_fraction):
* gst/gststructure.h:
* gst/gstutils.c: (gst_util_uint64_scale_int):
* gst/gstutils.h:
* scripts/update-funcnames:
API Changes.
Rename gst_util_clock_time_scale to gst_util_uint64_scale_int
Make gst_structure_fixate_field_nearest_fraction take a numerator
and denominator argument instead of a GValue
add gst_structure_get_fraction helper function.
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* gst/gstutils.c: (gst_util_clocktime_scale):
* gst/gstutils.h:
* docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt:
Add util method for scaling a clocktime by a fraction. Useful
implementation is left as an exercise for the reader.
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* gst/base/gstbasesink.c: (gst_base_sink_commit_state),
(gst_base_sink_handle_object), (gst_base_sink_query), (do_playing):
* gst/base/gstbasesrc.c: (gst_base_src_query):
* gst/elements/gstfilesink.c: (gst_file_sink_query):
* gst/elements/gsttypefindelement.c:
(gst_type_find_handle_src_query), (find_element_get_length),
(gst_type_find_element_activate):
API change fix.
* gst/gstquery.c: (gst_query_new_position),
(gst_query_set_position), (gst_query_parse_position),
(gst_query_new_duration), (gst_query_set_duration),
(gst_query_parse_duration), (gst_query_set_segment),
(gst_query_parse_segment):
* gst/gstquery.h:
Bundling query position/duration is not a good idea since duration
does not change much and we don't want to recalculate it for every
position query, so they are separated again..
Base value in segment query is not needed.
* gst/gstqueue.c: (gst_queue_handle_src_query):
* gst/gstutils.c: (gst_element_query_position),
(gst_element_query_duration), (gst_pad_query_position),
(gst_pad_query_duration):
* gst/gstutils.h:
Updates for query API change.
Added some docs here and there.
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* docs/design/part-states.txt:
Some more docs.
* gst/gstbin.c: (gst_bin_set_clock_func), (gst_bin_recalc_state),
(gst_bin_change_state_func), (bin_bus_handler):
Doc updates. Don't distribute the same clock over and over again.
* gst/gstclock.c:
* gst/gstclock.h:
Doc updates.
* gst/gstpad.c: (gst_flow_get_name), (gst_flow_to_quark),
(gst_pad_get_type), (gst_pad_push), (gst_pad_push_event),
(gst_pad_send_event):
* gst/gstpad.h:
Make probe emission threadsafe again.
Register quarks and move _get_name() from utils.
Doc updates.
* gst/gstpipeline.c: (gst_pipeline_class_init),
(gst_pipeline_change_state), (gst_pipeline_provide_clock_func):
Only redistribute the clock of it changed.
* gst/gstsystemclock.h:
Doc updates.
* gst/gstutils.c:
* gst/gstutils.h:
Moved the _flow_get_name() to GstPad.
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2005-10-10 Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
* docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt: Doc updates.
* gst/gstutils.h:
* gst/gstutils.c (g_static_rec_cond_timed_wait)
(g_static_rec_cond_wait): Ported from state changes patch, while
we wait on bug #317802 to be solved in a well-distributed GLib.
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* docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt:
* gst/base/gstbasesrc.h:
* gst/gstelement.h:
* gst/gstevent.h:
* gst/gstobject.h:
* gst/gstpad.h:
* gst/gstpipeline.c:
* gst/gstpipeline.h:
* gst/gstutils.h:
* gst/gstxml.h:
added two new functions to the docs
documents all undocumented GstXXXFlags
completed some incomplete docs
Original commit message from CVS:
2005-09-21 Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
* check/gst/gstutils.c: New file.
(test_buffer_probe_n_times): A simple buffer probe test. More to
come, foolios.
* gst/gstutils.c (gst_pad_add_buffer_probe): Connect to
have-data::buffer, not have-data.
(gst_pad_add_event_probe): Likewise for have-data::event.
(gst_pad_add_data_probe): More docs. The part about 'resolving the
peer' isn't quite right yet though.
(gst_pad_remove_buffer_probe, gst_pad_remove_event_probe)
(gst_pad_remove_data_probe): Change to take the guint handler_id
as their arg, not the function+data, which is more glib-like.
* gst/gstpad.c (gst_pad_emit_have_data_signal): Add a detail to
the signal emission to indicate if the data is a buffer or an
event.
(gst_pad_get_type): Initialize buffer and event quarks.
(gst_pad_class_init): have-data is now a detailed signal, yes it
is.
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* check/gst/gstpipeline.c: (GST_START_TEST):
* docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt:
* gst/gstutils.c: (set_state_async_thread_func),
(gst_element_set_state_async):
* gst/gstutils.h:
add a gst_element_set_state_async method that
sets the state and starts a thread to make sure the state
change completes as best as it can
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2005-09-02 Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
* gst/gstelement.h (GstState): Renamed from GstElementState,
changed to be a normal enum instead of flags.
(GstStateChangeReturn): Renamed from GstElementStateReturn, names
munged to be GST_STATE_CHANGE_*.
(GST_STATE_CHANGE): Renamed from GST_STATE_TRANSITION, updated to
work with the new state representation.
(GstStateChange): New enumeration of possible state transitions.
Replaces GST_STATE_FOO_TO_BAR with GST_STATE_CHANGE_FOO_TO_BAR.
(GstElementClass::change_state): Pass the GstStateChange along as
an argument. Helps language bindings, so they don't have to use
tricky lock-needing macros like GST_STATE_CHANGE ().
* scripts/update-states (file): New script. Run it on a file to
update it for state naming and API changes. Updates files in
place.
* All files updated for the new API.
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2005-08-28 Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
* gst/gstutils.h (GST_BOILERPLATE_FULL): Prototype instance_init
as having two arguments instead of just one. Allows superclasses
to access information on subclasses -- see the terrible for() loop
in gtype.c:g_type_create_instance for the reason why. All callers
changed.
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* gst/gstbin.h:
removed ';' from the end of macro defs
* docs/gst/gstreamer-docs.sgml:
* docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt:
* docs/gst/tmpl/.cvsignore:
* gst/gstbus.h:
* gst/gstelement.c: (gst_element_class_init),
(gst_element_set_state), (activate_pads),
(gst_element_save_thyself):
* gst/gstevent.c: (gst_event_new_newsegment):
* gst/gstevent.h:
* gst/gstiterator.c:
* gst/gstiterator.h:
* gst/gstpad.c:
* gst/gstprobe.h:
* gst/gstutils.c: (gst_pad_query_convert):
* gst/gstutils.h:
fixed parameter name mismatches between source, header and docs
added some more docs, resolved the last batch of unused elements in
docs (now someone needs to doc them)
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* gst/gstbuffer.c: (gst_buffer_new_and_alloc):
Some debugging.
* gst/gstclock.h:
Cast to ClockTime before formatting to time.
* gst/gstutils.h:
Cleanups.
Original commit message from CVS:
2005-08-22 Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
* gst/gstutils.h (GST_BOILERPLATE_WITH_INTERFACE): New ghetto
macro, implements an interface and gstimplementsinterface for a
new type.
Original commit message from CVS:
2005-08-17 Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
* gst/base/gstbasetransform.c: Debug changes.
* gst/gstutils.h:
* gst/gstutils.c (gst_bin_watch_for_state_change): Add function to
ensure bins post state change messages. A bit of a hack but I can't
think of a way to avoid it.
* check/gst/gstbin.c (test_watch_for_state_change): Added test.
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* gst/gstutils.c: (gst_element_found_tags_for_pad), (push_and_ref),
(gst_element_found_tags):
* gst/gstutils.h:
Add two utility functions for tag handling.
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* docs/design/part-seeking.txt:
Some small additions.
* gst/base/gstbasesink.c: (gst_base_sink_handle_object),
(gst_base_sink_get_times), (gst_base_sink_do_sync),
(gst_base_sink_activate_push), (gst_base_sink_activate_pull):
* gst/base/gstbasesink.h:
discont values are gint64, handle the math correctly.
* gst/base/gstbasesrc.c: (gst_base_src_loop):
Make the basesrc report error if the source pad is not linked.
* gst/gstqueue.c: (gst_queue_link_src), (gst_queue_chain),
(gst_queue_loop), (gst_queue_handle_src_query),
(gst_queue_src_activate_push):
Make queue collect data even if the srcpad is not linked.
Start pushing out data as soon as it is linked.
* gst/gstutils.c: (gst_element_unlink), (gst_flow_get_name):
* gst/gstutils.h:
Added gst_flow_get_name() to ease error reporting.
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* docs/design/part-dynamic.txt:
* docs/design/part-events.txt:
* docs/design/part-seeking.txt:
Some more docs in the works.
* gst/base/gstbasetransform.c: (gst_base_transform_transform_caps),
(gst_base_transform_getcaps), (gst_base_transform_configure_caps),
(gst_base_transform_setcaps), (gst_base_transform_get_size),
(gst_base_transform_buffer_alloc), (gst_base_transform_event),
(gst_base_transform_handle_buffer),
(gst_base_transform_sink_activate_push),
(gst_base_transform_src_activate_pull),
(gst_base_transform_set_passthrough),
(gst_base_transform_is_passthrough):
Refcounting fixes.
* gst/gstbus.c: (gst_bus_source_dispatch), (gst_bus_poll):
Cleanups.
* gst/gstevent.c: (gst_event_finalize):
Set SRC to NULL.
* gst/gstutils.c: (gst_element_unlink),
(gst_pad_get_parent_element), (gst_pad_proxy_getcaps),
(gst_pad_proxy_setcaps):
* gst/gstutils.h:
Add _get_parent_element() to get a pads parent as an element.
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2005-07-13 Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
* gst/base/gstbasesrc.c (gst_base_src_start): Post an error if the
source couldn't negotiate.
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* gst/gstutils.c:
* gst/gstutils.h:
(gst_pad_add_*_probe): now returns the signal id for better wrapping
in bindings.
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* gst/gstelementfactory.c:
* gst/gstutils.h:
* gst/gstutils.c:
Moved gst_element_factory_can_[sink|src]_caps() to gstutils and added
the definition to the header file.
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* gst/base/gstbasesrc.c: (gst_basesrc_activate):
Don't go in pull mode for non-seekable sources.
* gst/elements/gsttypefindelement.c: (gst_type_find_element_init),
(gst_type_find_element_dispose), (gst_type_find_handle_src_query),
(free_entry), (stop_typefinding),
(gst_type_find_element_handle_event), (find_peek),
(gst_type_find_element_chain), (do_pull_typefind),
(gst_type_find_element_change_state):
Allow typefinding (w/o seeking) in push-mode, simplified version
of what was in 0.8.
* gst/gstutils.c: (gst_buffer_join):
* gst/gstutils.h:
gst_buffer_join() from 0.8.
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Remove old query functions. Ported old code.
Added position/convert helper functions to gstutils.
Reordered gstpad.c code, grouping relevant things.
Remove gst_message_new(), always need to speficy a specific
message.
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* gst/gstpad.c: Remove handling of filtered caps. Fix/merge
functions that handle filtered links.
* gst/gstpad.h: Remove 'appfilter' field and prototypes of
removed functions.
* gst/gstutils.c: Fix/remove utility functions that handle
filtered caps.
* gst/gstutils.h:
* gst/gstvalue.c: Add serialization/deserialization of caps
* gst/parse/grammar.y: Ignore filtered caps when linking. This
requires fixing so that the filter caps notation creates
a capsfilter element and sets the filter_caps property. I
think everyone probably wants to keep the shorthand notation.
* docs/gst/tmpl/gstelement.sgml: updates for API changes.
* docs/gst/tmpl/gstpad.sgml:
* gst/elements/gstelements.c: Register capsfilter element.
* gst/Makefile.am: fix spacing
* docs/random/ds/0.9-suggested-changes: random
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* gst/elements/Makefile.am:
* gst/elements/gstcapsfilter.c: New element that acts like an
identity, but filters caps. Will eventually replace filtered
caps in pad linking.
* gst/gstutils.c: (gst_element_create_all_pads): New function
to create all the ALWAYS pads that are registered with an
element class. This functionality should eventually be
merged in with GstElement initialization.
* gst/gstutils.h:
* testsuite/trigger/README: part of trigger test code that should
have been checked in a long time ago.
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Added GstBin test.
Added GstSystemClock test.
Implemented clock distribution code in GstBin.
Implemented iterate sinks method for future use.
Rearranged gstelement.h
Fix GstIterator comparison bug.
Moved some code to GstPipeline, mostly clocking related.
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First THREADED backport attempt, focusing on adding locks and
making sure the API is threadsafe. Needs more work. More docs
follow this week.
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* configure.ac: Add test for allowing unaligned access. Add define
to put in gstconfig.h.
* docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt: New symbols
* docs/gst/tmpl/gstcompat.sgml: Check in changes made by gtkdoc
* docs/gst/tmpl/gstfilesrc.sgml:
* docs/gst/tmpl/gstparse.sgml:
* docs/gst/tmpl/gsttypes.sgml:
* docs/gst/tmpl/gstutils.sgml:
* docs/gst/tmpl/gstvalue.sgml:
* gst/gstconfig.h.in: Add GST_HAVE_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
* gst/gstutils.h: Add macros for unaligned memory access. Useful
on most !i386/!powerpc architectures. From Daniel Gazard
<daniel.gazard@free.fr>. (bug #140156)
* po/af.po: Check in changes made by gettext.
* po/az.po:
* po/fr.po:
* po/nl.po:
* po/sr.po:
* po/sv.po:
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* docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt: Remove deprecated symbols.
* docs/gst/tmpl/gstinfo.sgml: same
* docs/gst/tmpl/gstutils.sgml: Remove a bunch of bogus crap that
gtk-doc put here.
* gst/gstutils.h: Remove the \ that was confusing gtk-doc.
* examples/queue/queue.c: (main): We iterate pipelines, not
bins. (bug #139996)
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- Removed unused locking from the cothreads
- use G_*_DECLS in .h files
- remove gstlog.h include from gstobject.h, add to .c files
- removed unused refcounting code from gstobject
- small fixes in #includes
- Added Scheduling policy and priority properties to gstthread so that
SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR threads can be constructed.
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- Remove the propsprivate header file
- Added new API for properties.
- Moved the clock distribution to the scheduler.
- Removed the lock from GstCaps
- Added boxed types for Caps/Props
- Simplified the clock, new systemclock implementation
- Removed deprecated element_info/send_event functions
- First step at exposing more info in the pad_connect functions
- Queue cleanup
- Make the scheduler aware of other schedulers inside it
- Added the _SELF_SCHEDULABLE flag to gstthread
- Removed _get_widget from _utils, changed to new props API
- Make fakesink sync on timestamps when requested
- Removed the offset notify from filesrc
- Added a fast scheduler
- some scheduler cleanups.
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added gst_util_set_value_from_string.
this could probably be refactored with gst_util_set_object_arg at a later date.
Original commit message from CVS:
2001-12-14 Michael Meeks <michael@ximian.com>
* gst/gst.c (gst_main, gst_main_quit): upd.
* gst/gstutils.c (gst_util_has_arg): impl.
(gst_util_get_int64_arg): impl.
* plugins/mpeg2/video/gstmpeg2play.c
(gst_mpeg2play_class_init): min frames per sec = 0.
* plugins/mikmod/gstmikmod.c (gst_mikmod_class_init):
s/16bit/use16bit/ properties can't begin with a non
alpha.
* tools/gstreamer-guilaunch.c: fresh from the ministy
of nasty hacks.
* tools/Makefile.am: enable gstreamer-guilaunch for
Gnome 2.0
* tools/gstreamer-launch.c (main): upd.
(idle_func): quit the mainloop.
Original commit message from CVS:
API docs.
revived _buffer_ref_by_count
fast types for scheduler and bin.
error checking on plugin features;
removed some prototypes that were not implemented (gst_pipeline_iterate
comes to mind)
remove gst_pad_event until we know what it's supposed to do.
remove sinesrc, it wasn't compiles anymore, so...
updates to various elements that used the old event API.
Original commit message from CVS:
Added a utility function in gstutils to set an object argument as a
string. gstparse.c and gstelement.c now use this function.
Original commit message from CVS:
Lots of editor changes:
- restucturing of object creation
- loading of xml files
- visual eye candy: color changes on mouseover
- active object is indicated
- property box changes for boolean and enum types
- property box: create properties per element
- show pads/caps in propertybox
added gst_util_get_bool_arg in gstutils.c
added default properties for audiosink
