The vvas_xfunnel VVAS Gstreamer plug-in serializes data on its sink pads by iterating through all of them in a round-robin fashion. If a sink pad has a buffer available, it sends the data on the source pad. If a sink pad does not have data available, the plug-in will wait for a user-configurable amount of time before moving on to the next sink pad.
When a new sink pad is added or removed from the vvas_xfunnel plug-in, it sends custom events to notify the vvas_xdefunnel plug-in to create or destroy source pads. Each buffer includes metadata that enables the vvas_xdefunnel plug-in to determine which source pad the buffer should be sent to.
The vvas_xfunnel plug-in can support a maximum of 256 sink pads connected to it.
vvas_xfunnel supports all caps.
Refer vvas_xdefunnel plug-in which de-serializes these serialized data and pushes them to the output pads.
This plug-in supports:
Multiple sink pads, single source pad.
Sink pads are request pads and they can be added or removed dynamically.
Serialization of parallel data using round robin algorithm.
Important
Caps of all the sink pads must be same, this is to avoid caps renegotiation always when sending buffer from the sink pad which has different caps.
Important
There are several custom events sent from this plugin for vvas_xdefunnel plug-in, intermediate plug-ins must pass these events.