manual: add something about uridecodebin

diff --git a/docs/manual/advanced-autoplugging.xml b/docs/manual/advanced-autoplugging.xml
index e2ccb4d..5f7a0e0 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/advanced-autoplugging.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/advanced-autoplugging.xml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     by looking at all available elements in a system. This process is called
     autoplugging, and &GStreamer; contains high-quality autopluggers. If
     you're looking for an autoplugger, don't read any further and go to
-    <xref linkend="chapter-components"/>. This chapter will explain the
+    <xref linkend="chapter-playback-components"/>. This chapter will explain the
     <emphasis>concept</emphasis> of autoplugging and typefinding. It will
     explain what systems &GStreamer; includes to dynamically detect the
     type of a media stream, and how to generate a pipeline of decoder
@@ -235,8 +235,8 @@ main (gint   argc,
   <sect1 id="section-dynamic">
     <title>Dynamically autoplugging a pipeline</title>
     <para>
-      See <xref linkend="chapter-components"/> for using the high level
-      object that you can use to dynamically construct pipelines.
+      See <xref linkend="chapter-playback-components"/> for using the high
+      level object that you can use to dynamically construct pipelines.
     </para>
   </sect1>
 </chapter>

diff --git a/docs/manual/highlevel-components.xml b/docs/manual/highlevel-playback.xml
similarity index 85%
rename from docs/manual/highlevel-components.xml
rename to docs/manual/highlevel-playback.xml
index b82c26c..c4526d2 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/highlevel-components.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/highlevel-playback.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<chapter id="chapter-components">
-  <title>Components</title>
+<chapter id="chapter-playback-components">
+  <title>Playback Components</title>
 
   <para>
     &GStreamer; includes several higher-level components to simplify an
@@ -366,11 +366,57 @@ main (gint   argc,
       command <command>gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=file.ogg ! decodebin
       ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! autoaudiosink</command>.
     </para>
+  </sect1>
+
+  <sect1 id="section-components-uridecodebin">
+    <title>URIDecodebin</title>
     <para>
       The uridecodebin element is very similar to decodebin, only that it
       automatically plugs a source plugin based on the protocol of the URI
       given.
     </para>
+    <para>
+      Uridecodebin will also automatically insert buffering elements when
+      the uri is a slow network source. The buffering element will post
+      BUFFERING messages that the application needs to handle as explained
+      in <xref linkend="chapter-buffering"/>.     
+      The following properties can be used to configure the buffering method:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The buffer-size property allows you to configure a maximum size in
+          bytes for the buffer element.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The buffer-duration property allows you to configure a maximum size
+          in time for the buffer element. The time will be estimated based on
+          the bitrate of the network.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          With the download property you can enable the download buffering
+          method as described in <xref linkend="section-buffering-download"/>.
+          Setting this option to TRUE will only enable download buffering
+          for selected formats such as quicktime, flash video, avi and
+          webm.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          You can also enable buffering on the parsed/demuxed data with the
+          use-buffering property. This is interesting to enable buffering
+          on slower random access media such as a network file server.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    <para>
+      URIDecodebin can be easily tested on the commandline, e.g. by using the
+      command <command>gst-launch-1.0 uridecodebin uri=file:///file.ogg !
+      ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! autoaudiosink</command>.
+    </para>
   </sect1>
-
 </chapter>

diff --git a/docs/manual/manual.xml b/docs/manual/manual.xml
index 87e5356..2d1ec9a 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/manual.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/manual.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 <!ENTITY DATAACCESS           SYSTEM "advanced-dataaccess.xml">
 
 <!-- Part 4: Higher-level interfaces -->
-<!ENTITY COMPONENTS           SYSTEM "highlevel-components.xml">
+<!ENTITY PLAYBACK             SYSTEM "highlevel-playback.xml">
 
 <!-- Appendices -->
 <!ENTITY PROGRAMS             SYSTEM "appendix-programs.xml">
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
       </para>
     </partintro>
 
-    &COMPONENTS;
+    &PLAYBACK;
 
   </part>
 

diff --git a/tests/examples/manual/Makefile.am b/tests/examples/manual/Makefile.am
index a632a3d..c20441b 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/examples/manual/Makefile.am
+++ b/tests/examples/manual/Makefile.am
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ dynformat.c: $(top_srcdir)/docs/manual/advanced-dataaccess.xml
 effectswitch.c: $(top_srcdir)/docs/manual/advanced-dataaccess.xml
        $(PERL_PATH) $(srcdir)/extract.pl $@ $<
 
-playbin.c decodebin.c: $(top_srcdir)/docs/manual/highlevel-components.xml
+playbin.c decodebin.c: $(top_srcdir)/docs/manual/highlevel-playback.xml
        $(PERL_PATH) $(srcdir)/extract.pl $@ $<
 
 testrtpool.c: $(top_srcdir)/docs/manual/advanced-threads.xml