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Original commit message from CVS: A first (rude) attempt at autoplug. Autoplugging selects appropriate codecs to connect src to sink, adds them to the pipeline and connect pads. Autoplugging will run the typedetect plugin if the src pad has no MIME type. No autoplugging is done on the src and sink pads, it's hardcoded: connect 'src to sink'. No attempt at creating threads. No attempt at dynamically autoplugging not yet existing pads. Changes to (some) plugins to properly set their MIME types.
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.