From: Toby H. <gl...@ma...> - 2003-06-30 18:53:56
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----- Original Message ----- From: Ronald Bultje <rb...@ro...> Date: 30 Jun 2003 09:23:19 +0200 To: Cyrius <su...@ya...> Subject: Re: [gst-devel] Fwd: Re: [UCI-Devel] Re: [matroska-devel] Re: Common Opensource codec API > Hey, > > On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 02:38, Cyrius wrote: > > See I think the different operations like filters > > and muxing should just be subsets of the message > > space. > > This was my idea exactly. The muxing/codec operation subsets themselves > should be described in the protocol, too, but shouldn't introduce any > new features or methods, they should just implement a specific way of > using the generalized methods for their specific task. > > > One of the reasons I was advocating a system with > > 2-way communication at each level was to do things > > like have an app request an operation that a filter > > does not support, and have the filter propose an > > alternate operation by calling back other parts of > > the system for more info. Thus programmers would be > > free to do what they think is best for their code to > > serve each message request. > > Let's first keep it simple. ;). > > Ronald > > -- > Ronald Bultje <rb...@ro...> > The main idea was to keep it simple. The problem is when you make everything one-way like VFW it becomes not simple to do certain things. I had simplicity as the main goal in mind when thinking this through. -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup |