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Original commit message from CVS: * docs/random/wtay/network-transp: Some old doc I had.
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Network Transparent elements
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1) netbin
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- exposes local shims and remote real elements.
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- all shim pads can be connected to other shim
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pads and operations are proxied to real elements.
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- when the pads are not part of the same bin, network
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transparent ghostpads are created to connect them.
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- bin has host property to indicate where it should
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run.
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2) netpipeline
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- synchronizes different netbins, this means distributing
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the same element base time to the remote bins.
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- clocks master/slave is set up.
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3) netpad
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- all pad operations are proxied to peer pad using
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a network protocol, possibly selectable from RTP/TCP/....
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Serialisation of buffers and events are to be considered
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but also methods with their arguments. A generator would
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not be too bad to automate this.
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- the implementation would be fairly similar to the
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ghostpad implementation.
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- This includes event passing (bidirectional) and
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data passing (unidirectional). Some events have to pass
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in parallel with the datastream so the event path should
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use a different connection.
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4) GStreamer deamon
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- each host has to run a deamon that listens for
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commands and creates elements/pipelines and performs all
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operations on the real pipeline.
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Other stuff
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- what about migrating elements from one host to another. This
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would happen when an element is removed form a bin into another
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bin.
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- do we have/need a fast protocol for stuff on the same machine or
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will regular network connections work fine?
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