guint len = GST_BUFFER_MEM_LEN (buffer);
if (G_UNLIKELY (len >= GST_BUFFER_MEM_MAX)) {
- /* to many buffer, span them */
+ /* too many buffer, span them. */
+ /* FIXME, there is room for improvement here: We could only try to merge
+ * 2 buffers to make some room. If we can't efficiently merge 2 buffers we
+ * could try to only merge the two smallest buffers to avoid memcpy, etc. */
_replace_memory (buffer, _span_memory (buffer, 0, -1, FALSE));
/* we now have 1 single spanned buffer */
len = 1;