[PATCH v6 5/5] winegstreamer: Replace source pad interface with GstAppSrc.

[Derek Lesho]

On 9/21/21 13:02, Zebediah Figura wrote:

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> 1. Rely on the fact that seek-data is sent during a seek, and use it 
> to effectively invalidate any buffers sent before the seek. Unlike the 
> aforementioned problem with validation, this will actually work: at 
> the time that seek-data is sent appsrc should be flushing, so any 
> buffers we send before it will be discarded by appsrc, and any buffers 
> we send afterward can be discarded by us if they aren't valid. This is 
> very fragile, though. There's really no reason for appsrc to send 
> seek-data for random-access streams in the first place, and this kind 
> of synchronization is easy to get wrong if I haven't already.

This sounds like the best way forward in my opinion, how is it fragile?  
It seems that if we just ensure that a pushed buffer takes into account 
the latest seek/need data pair, not much can go wrong.