Re: [PATCH 0/3] MR5805: winegstreamer: Create transforms from MFVIDEOFORMAT / WAVEFORMATEX.

[Ziqing Hui (＠zhui)]

On Tue Jun 18 04:03:03 2024 +0000, Ziqing Hui wrote:
> In my opion, getting rid of wg_format, using something in frontend to
> represent the media formats is better than what we have now. One problem
> I found in current wg_format is, in Proton, sometimes a format have a
> large codec data, it's not a good idea to let wg_format holding a large
> data. If we can translate from frontend to GstCaps directly, this won't
> be a problem.

If we want wg_format be able to hold large codec data. One way I can come up with is allocating the data in heap, then add a refcount member to wg_format, and we have to free the data when refcount goes to 0. But this makes wg_format really complicate, I don't think this is expected.