[xine-user] Re: [xine-devel] New input plugin API

[Paul F. <P.F...@ft...>]

Siggi Langauf wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I have totally rewritten the input plugin API as we want to introduce an
> improved buffering scheme. This would allow for input plugins to read
> bigger junks of input data, improving performance.
>
> The new API features:
>
> ...
> - new buffer allocation scheme (input plugins now allocate their buffers,
>   not the demuxer)

Good, that will save a copy if it's streamed input.

>
> It will probably take some time before this even compiles again, but I
> committed it now, so everybody can get used to the new API, and I need
> some review.
> So if you're into some input plugin programming, have a look at
> input/input_plugin.h and input/input_file.c.
> I've tried to include anything necessary, but I'm sure I forgot something.

It still looks as though it would be difficult to cleanly support RTP streams

but that may be a special case and it over laps with the demuxers (RTP
typically carries audio on on multicast group and video on another).