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Bug 331058 - Add a source element that reads from memory
Add a source element that reads from memory
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 413418
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gstreamer (core)
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: git master
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-02-13 21:43 UTC by Johan (not receiving bugmail) Dahlin
Modified: 2008-06-12 16:11 UTC
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Description Johan (not receiving bugmail) Dahlin 2006-02-13 21:43:10 UTC 
While it is possible to write a GStreamer application that reads from memory using various tricks (eg hacks): fdsrc+pipes, identity+pad_push etc.

However, there is no officially documented and supported way. I think that adding a separate element would make it easier for application developers to easily use GStreamers in scenarios when data is accessed through a memory stream.
Comment 1 Luca Ognibene 2006-02-19 16:58:33 UTC 
Do you have some idea on how should be this element? 
I think a lot of apps need a different way to pass data to a pipeline, for example i've created a gasyncqueue[src|sink] to use in my app because i need to push frames from a different thread and this works fine for me but i don't think it would be a general good solution.
Comment 2 Wim Taymans 2007-09-05 22:51:52 UTC 
appsrc, appsink is the current best option.
Comment 3 Wim Taymans 2008-06-12 16:11:55 UTC 
Closing, appsrc should be able to handle all cases, see the examples in
-bad/examples/app

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 413418 ***