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Original commit message from CVS: Closed 22145 - gstelement.c: support hotswapping of loopfunc Added a flag GST_ELEMENT_NEW_LOOPFUNC that's set when a new loopfunc is set, which needs to be obeyed by the loopfuncs themselves. The assumption is that only a loopfunc or an element that knows what it's doing will ever change the loopfunc pointer, so they can be responsible for exitting the loopfunc itself appropriately. The loopfunc_wrapper function has been changed to call the loopfunc pointer itself in a loop. If the loopfunc changes, the current loop is supposed to exit, which causes the loopfunc_wrapper to start up the new loopfunc.
This is gnome-streamer, a framework for streaming media in GNOME. The fundamental design comes from the video pipeline at Oregon Graduate Institute, as well as some ideas from DirectMedia. It's based on plug-ins that will provide the various codec and other functionality. The interface hopefully is generic enough for various companies (ahem, Apple) to release binary codecs for Linux, until such time as they get a clue and release the source.