Re: Query regarding GstPadBufferAllocFunction for allocating physically continues mem

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 04:40:34AM -0700, Kugan V wrote:
> [Sending this again from subscribed e-mail. Sincere
Apologies if the
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> 
> Hi All,
> I have a hardware implementation of a filter and need
to write a gsteramer
> wrapper for this work in a gstreamer pipeline. As a
first step, I want to
> test
> this on a  gstemare pipeline witth videotetsrc ->
filter ->tvout. Here
> filter
> and tvout are hardware modules for which I will be
writing the gstreamer
> plugins. However, in doing this I have run into
following problem:
> 
> 1. I need to allocate physically continuous memory such
that the hardware
> modules can do DMA on them. In this regard, I tried
writing a
> buffer_allocation
> callback (with gst_pad_set_bufferalloc_fuction) for the
filter sinkpad. If
> id this,
> can I assume that the GstBuffer pushed by videotestsrc
will be allocated
> using this? If not how do I do this?

No, you cannot assume this.  You must check that it's a
buffer that
was allocated using your bufferalloc function, and if not,
you
probably will want to allocate a new buffer and memcpy the
data into
it.  You might want to look at xvimagesink to see how it
does this
with XShmImages.

> 2. the callback function has the prototype
> GstFlowReturn (*GstPadBufferAllocFunction)  (GstPad
*pad,
> guint64 offset, guint size,  GstCaps *caps, GstBuffer
**buf);
> In the callback function, I am doing the follwing
> a. malloc memory for GstBuffer structure

GstBuffers are created by calling gst_buffer_new().  If you
decide to
subclass GstBuffer (as in xvimagesink), you will probably
implement
your own _new() function that calls gst_mini_object_new().



dave...


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