Re: ClutterGst plans

[Rob Kramer <robk starhub net sg>]

Hi Lionel,

On 02/04/2013 08:17 PM, Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
> So I think the most important change would be to detach what is 
> playing the video from what displays the video. In recent patches from 
> Collabora [1], a ClutterGstActor class has been introduced. I think it 
> would be cool if we could use this class as a point of display for a 
> media pipeline. Basically this class/interface would just be charge of 
> drawing images on the screen. And the way we set what it's going to be 
> display, is by attaching a player element to it.

I'm interested in gapless playback as well, but my definition of gapless 
is related to GST pre-rolling time. I basically have a set of a few 
clips that need to be started at specific time intervals, but the 
pre-rolling time is not deterministic and can take up to a second. Could 
the player/actor split be used to keep a few idle pre-rolled players 
lying around, which can be slotted into an actor and started when needed?

Cheers!

    Rob