[gmpi] Re: Revised topic 7.4: Silence
- From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: GMPI Mailing list <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:51:35 +0100
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:43:09 -0400, Angus F. Hewlett wrote:
> > Q: Do we handle silent buffers specially?
> >
> > a) Yes. Each buffer has a SILENT flag which plugins can detect.
> > Support is optional for both host and plugins.
>
> Support cannot be entirely optional for the plugins. If the host sets the
> silent flag and we are doing inplace processing, the plugin must know
> enough to be able to unset it if necessary. Anyways, I think this is the
> best approach if we support it, and Ron and others have made a convincing
> performance case for doing so.
In that case the host doesnt need to run inplace on that input port. IT
can provide the blobal silent buffer for the input and the output will be
the buffer it would have used anyway.
- Steve
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