[gmpi] Re: Reqs Discuss: 12-15

  • From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:10:50 -0800

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:14:33PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:12:37AM -0500, RonKuper@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> Having mutliple pass requirements is a whole other can of worms.  How would
> >> you envision it working from a host point of view?

> >> A few ways.  The way we do it in a private API we wrote is we ask the
> >> plugin, how many passes do you need?  If the plugin says > 1, then we call
> >> it (offline, of course) with the same data pass by pass.  At the start of
> >> each pass we call a "begin pass" method.

> >> Multipass is pretty important if you want to write plugins that do any kind
> >> of global analysis on a large audio signal up front, such as intelligent
> >> noise reduction.

Do we want to make some requirements about multi-pass (offline only) 
plugins, then?

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