docs/design/draft-klass.txt: We use Filter now.

Original commit message from CVS:
* docs/design/draft-klass.txt:
We use Filter now.
Added Connector to mark elements that are only used to
allow pipeline connections.
Moved Debug to extra feature since most of them are
functionally something else.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index dbf56241b653ed0c0957bd667e894ecde918f9ce..fa4ba3e075cf7fe3fab73865f73700094696ba0d 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2006-02-28  Wim Taymans  <wim@fluendo.com>
+
+       * docs/design/draft-klass.txt:
+       We use Filter now.
+       Added Connector to mark elements that are only used to
+       allow pipeline connections.
+       Moved Debug to extra feature since most of them are 
+       functionally something else.
+
 2006-02-28  Wim Taymans  <wim@fluendo.com>
 
        * docs/design/draft-klass.txt:

diff --git a/docs/design/draft-klass.txt b/docs/design/draft-klass.txt
index f9778b4a6d6811257dbb93d188a76a9dc1442f10..401223a44a2f0da9e36220e769e26aaf2cc6b864 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/design/draft-klass.txt
+++ b/docs/design/draft-klass.txt
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Proposal:
 
      * Source        : produces data
      * Sink          : consumes data
-     * Filter        : transforms data, no modification on the data is
+     * Filter        : filters/transforms data, no modification on the data is
                        intended (although it might be unavoidable). The
                       filter can decide on input and output caps independently
                       of the stream contents (GstBaseTransform).
@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ Proposal:
                        typically works on raw types only. The source media type
                       is listed first.
      * Analyzer      : reports about the stream contents.
-     * Debug         : tee, identity, fakesrc, navseek, ...
      * Control       : controls some aspect of a hardware device
      * Extracter     : extracts tags/headers from a stream
      * Formatter     : adds tags/headers to a stream
+     * Connector     : allows for new connections in the pipeline. (tee, ...)
      * ...
 
    - Based on media type
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ Proposal:
      * Device        : operates on some hardware device (disk, network,
                        audio card, video card, usb, ...)
      * Visualisation : intended to be used for audio visualisation
+     * Debug         : intended usage is more for debugging purposes.
      
   3) suggested order:
 
@@ -117,7 +118,7 @@ Proposal:
      id3demux         : Extracter/Metadata
      udpsrc           : Source/Network/Protocol/Device
      videomixer       : Mixer/Video
-     ffmpegcolorspace : Transform/Video          (intended use to convert video with as little
+     ffmpegcolorspace : Filter/Video            (intended use to convert video with as little
                                                   visible change as possible)
      vertigotv        : Effect/Video             (intended use is to change the video)
      volume           : Effect/Audio             (intended use is to change the audio data)
@@ -127,12 +128,13 @@ Proposal:
      adder            : Mixer/Audio
      videobox         : Effect/Video
      alsamixer        : Control/Audio/Device
-     audioconvert     : Transform/Audio
-     audioresample    : Transform/Audio
+     audioconvert     : Filter/Audio
+     audioresample    : Filter/Audio
      xvimagesink      : Sink/Video/Device
-     navseek          : Debug
+     navseek          : Filter/Debug
      decodebin        : Decoder/Demuxer
-     level            : Transform/Analyzer/Audio
+     level            : Filter/Analyzer/Audio
+     tee              : Connector/Debug
    
 Use cases: