2005-07-27 Wim Taymans <wim@fluendo.com>
+ * docs/random/wtay/network-transp:
+ Some old doc I had.
+
+2005-07-27 Wim Taymans <wim@fluendo.com>
+
* libs/gst/dataprotocol/dataprotocol.c: (gst_dp_packet_from_event),
(gst_dp_event_from_packet):
Fix serialization of seek events.
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+Network Transparent elements
+----------------------------
+
+1) netbin
+
+ - exposes local shims and remote real elements.
+ - all shim pads can be connected to other shim
+ pads and operations are proxied to real elements.
+ - when the pads are not part of the same bin, network
+ transparent ghostpads are created to connect them.
+ - bin has host property to indicate where it should
+ run.
+
+2) netpipeline
+
+ - synchronizes different netbins, this means distributing
+ the same element base time to the remote bins.
+ - clocks master/slave is set up.
+
+3) netpad
+
+ - all pad operations are proxied to peer pad using
+ a network protocol, possibly selectable from RTP/TCP/....
+ Serialisation of buffers and events are to be considered
+ but also methods with their arguments. A generator would
+ not be too bad to automate this.
+ - the implementation would be fairly similar to the
+ ghostpad implementation.
+ - This includes event passing (bidirectional) and
+ data passing (unidirectional). Some events have to pass
+ in parallel with the datastream so the event path should
+ use a different connection.
+
+4) GStreamer deamon
+
+ - each host has to run a deamon that listens for
+ commands and creates elements/pipelines and performs all
+ operations on the real pipeline.
+
+Other stuff
+-----------
+
+ - what about migrating elements from one host to another. This
+ would happen when an element is removed form a bin into another
+ bin.
+
+ - do we have/need a fast protocol for stuff on the same machine or
+ will regular network connections work fine?