Totem Chapters Plugin - Weekly Report 11

[Alexander Saprykin <xelfium gmail com>]

Hey all there,

here is my weekly report #11 (see text version below):
http://axsaprykin.blogspot.com/2010/08/gsoc-weekly-code-report-11.html

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        text version
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Ouh, yet another week is gone. It's a time for the "soft" pencils down
state — to fix bugs and to make final touches. Well, I still have a
lot of work and ideas to do :) For me the finish line of the GSoC 2010
is rather smooth because I will continue working on my project after
that, so it's just some kind of a checkpoint I have to go through.

This week I was working on my GstToc implementation. First of all, I
fixed some stuff: added GstStructure field to GstToc and GstTocEntry
to store some additional info there, added pointer to the GstPad into
every GstTocEntry to track the origin of the chapters. I added a new
GstQuery — TOC query, using which you can retrieve full TOC with UID
marker for the TOC entry which can be used to extend the TOC with new
entries. Also I added a new GstEvent — TOC select event, to select a
chapter or edition to start playback from. It will make easier
chapters navigation via applications. Now I can remove start/stop and
format values from GstTocEntry because they are not generic (some
elements doesn't need them), but we need to find a way to store these
values somewhere so that applications can retrieve them for additional
information for the user interface. And I updated GstToc tests to
handle new query and event, and docs for all the recent changes.

Well, I've done not so much I wanted last week, but last three days I
was working only for some hours due to the breakage of my laptop's AC
adapter :( Just got a new one ($55 for that — the costs are quite high
here in Russia), and now I can work more. I'm moving out of the city
for two weeks, so I'll be online not a much time, but I'll not stop
working and try to find some kind of mobile broadband Internet there.
Next week I want to work on GstToc stuff and it's implementation in
the Matroska element.

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   git shortlog
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repository: git://gitorious.org/gstreamer-chapters/gstreamer-core.git

commit ec5a904bf5674266b1e749dabf9f48c83305d983
Author: Alexander Saprykin <xelfium gmail com>
Date:   Sun Aug 8 11:57:08 2010 +0400

    gsttoc: Initial support for GstTocSetter interface

commit f60af27cd10c753941f620378249b549407eb945
Author: Alexander Saprykin <xelfium gmail com>
Date:   Sun Aug 8 11:55:48 2010 +0400

    docs: A few touches


commit 4a7042a42036816b77355a0ae7a3249bdd5587b4
Author: Alexander Saprykin <xelfium gmail com>
Date:   Wed Aug 4 10:00:01 2010 +0400

    gstchecks: Updated GstToc tests for new GST_QUERY_TOC and GST_EVENT_TOC_SELE

commit 70a9261e8caf92a103a8551d487fc3e5bf3592a7
Author: Alexander Saprykin <xelfium gmail com>
Date:   Wed Aug 4 09:58:54 2010 +0400

    gsttoc: Remove unneed sanity check

commit 04d081e6e0dddf243272a70ae38f2802753cbbd1
Author: Alexander Saprykin <xelfium gmail com>
Date:   Wed Aug 4 01:09:49 2010 +0400

    docs: Add docs for TOC select event

commit 24dade1fccf32c06b60b0d874d651da0d88e91e3
Author: Alexander Saprykin <xelfium gmail com>
Date:   Wed Aug 4 01:07:14 2010 +0400

    gstevent: Add new GST_EVENT_TOC_SELECT (upstream)

    gstevent: Add gst_event_new_toc_select () and gst_event_parse_toc_select ()
    gstquark: Add quarks for TOC select event
    gstevent: small fixes

commit 5c78847f75e90766b2b8c95385e84cfd3ca1069a
Author: Alexander Saprykin <xelfium gmail com>
Date:   Tue Aug 3 17:28:09 2010 +0400

    gstquery: Add docs for the TOC query


commit e17b0c10391e1499888b4a6c42771d5090dd0b90
Author: Alexander Saprykin <xelfium gmail com>
Date:   Tue Aug 3 14:15:19 2010 +0400

    gsttoc: Remove unused PAD field in TOC entry's GstStructure

commit e398c277487af2c2204bb5ca7a4dfa5ac3f7c28e
Author: Alexander Saprykin <xelfium gmail com>
Date:   Tue Aug 3 00:57:49 2010 +0400

    gsttoc: Add new fields to GstToc and GstTocEntry

    gsttoc: Add GstStructure field for generic info to GstEntry and GstToc
    gsttoc: Add gpointer field to GstTocEntry for GstPad related to it