This is an efficient string storage for short strings without heap allocations,
and falling back to the heap for bigger allocations. Almost all structure fields
and structure names in use nowadays are short enough to not require a heap
allocation.
As structure names and fields are sometimes dynamically created, storing them in
a GQuark can create a memory leak and potentially a DoS attack by continously
triggering creating of new quarks.
Thanks to Tim for coming up with the name!
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/7432>
This allows metas to be serialized to be transmitted or stored. This is
intended to be used for example by gdppay or unixfdsink.
Implemented on GstCustomMeta, GstVideoMeta, GstReferenceTimestampMeta,
and GstAudioMeta.
Sponsored-by: Netflix Inc.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/5355>
On macOS, a Cocoa event loop is needed in the main thread to ensure
things like opening a GL window work correctly. In the past, this was
patched into glib via Cerbero, but that prevented us from updating it.
This workaround simply runs an NSApplication and then calls the
main function on a secondary thread, allowing GStreamer to correctly
display windows and/or system permission prompts, for example.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/3532>
