Hi Tuukka,

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 10:18, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> please notice that this is BUGGY code. It doesn't work if the driver
> provides only one buffer (which is specifically allowed by the API docs).
> I have seen too many applications with this bug:
> avifile, camstream, effectv, gnomemeeting, gstreamer, motion, vic.

I think it's valid behaviour for an application to expect/want more
buffers, too. GStreamer nicely errors out with a "we want at least two
buffers". If the driver can't provide that, well, badluck. You're free
to implement a fallback mechanism for the GStreamer plugin, of course.
:).

Ronald

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