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Thomas Vander Stichele 26ed95efc0 description of data protocol
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description of data protocol
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GStreamer data protocol
Intended to wrap GstData objects in a line protocol for use with
pipe/network elements.
IDEAS
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* for transporting buffers, have a function that creates a header for
a given buffer to be written before the buffer. This way, you don't lose
time creating a GDP buffer from the buffer
* allow for CRC'ing of the GstBuffer, optionally
* have a version number of the protocol
* optimizing the header for size is not useful since the GstData structure
already contains more than 32 bytes anyway, making up half the header size
PROTOCOL
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* 1 byte GDP major version
* 1 byte GDP minor version
* 1 byte GDP flags
* 1 byte GDP data type
1 for buffer, 2 caps, 65+ for events
* 4 byte length of "payload"
* 8 byte timestamp of buffer/event
* 8 byte duration of buffer
* 8 byte offset
* 8 byte offset_end
* 16 byte future extension (ABI padding)
* 2 byte optional header crc
* 2 byte optional payload crc
* (length) payload
header: 60 bytes
all numbers use network byte ordering.