GSoC Weekly Code Report 9

Heat. heat, heat... That was the most popular topic for the discussions this week in Russia. Yeah, again and again. The rain is most welcomed today, I think. There is a more terrible weather in the Moscow, BBC reports quite well the current situation. It's time for BBQs and swimming now :) Aside from weather, I'm a bit late with my report due to some things I wanted to be finished. And now I can tell about what I was working for during this week.

First of all, I was improving GstToc support in GStreamer. I created a repository[0] instead of posting a batch of patches to bugzilla again, so everyone can test it without much efforts. I added more sanity checks for TOC's structure during serialization/deserialization process: there shouldn't be mixed chapters and editions at the same level of the TOC 'cause it makes no sense. Also I added a bit more tests for GstToc to cover this improvement. Unit testing helped me a lot while I was making those changes in the GstToc.

Finally, I have finished chapters support in Matroska element including demuxer and muxer support with per-chapter/edition tags. This work is based on GstToc. What does it mean? Well, now applications can handle Matroska chapters and navigate through the file using them. With all the tags related to the TOC. That's one of the cool features I'm going to implement in my Totem chapters plugin in case of successful acceptance of the GStreamer's GstToc patches. Also from now you will not lose chapters inside Matroska files while remuxing them. All the chapters will be handled by the muxer and saved properly. Just tested it with VLC — works quite well. I've already sent patch for Matroska element to bugzilla. And you can grab gst-plugins-good branch with Matroska chapters support in my repository[1].

I worked a bit on my Totem chapters plugin (just some minor fixes), too. It's waiting for the GstToc support :) Now I'm waiting for reviews on my GStreamer patches to decide in which way I'll be moving next week. Sebastian said that GUADEC is a nice place to do it :) Well, I'm really sad that I couldn't go GUADEC this year :( I hope all you guys have a good time there! Last week my planning was quite accurate and I did all the things I wanted to do (and a bit more, but with report delaying). I didn't think that debugging and testing can take so much time, though.

Next week... For now, I'm really don't know what to do next, 'cause my work depends on GstToc features. It's August almost there and it's a time for some final touches on my GSoC project, I think. So, what do I need to do? First of all I need to integrate my Totem chapters plugin into the master branch, but it will have more sense with GstToc support in it. That's why my nearest target will be to get GstToc accepted. After that I can implement it in my chapters plugin. Till that I will be looking for other GStreamer elements in which I can implement GstToc support (not sure I will have a time during GSoC, but I have plans to make my plugin more valuable after GSoC). Also I will be hacking Totem's backend a bit to play around with GstToc features. See you next week :)

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[0] git@gitorious.org:gstreamer-chapters/gstreamer-core.git
[1] git@gitorious.org:gstreamer-chapters/gstreamer-good.git

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