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    Add new 'proxy' element to stream data between pipelines · 3f7e29d5
    Nirbheek Chauhan authored
    This keep-it-simple plugin is useful when you want to pipe arbitrary
    data to a different pipeline within the same process. Some advantages
    over appsink/appsrc, the inter elements, etc:
    
    * Ease of use. Buffers, events, and caps are transmitted as-is without
      copying or serialization.
    * Enables zerocopy (especially DMABUF) transparently without any
      special-casing.
    * Enables usage with sinks or elements that are unreliable and may
      throw errors and need re-initialization, such as a network sink, a
      USB device sink (v4l2), etc.
    * Transmits arbitrary data, not just audio/video/subs
    * Can easily implement 1 producer pipeline -> N dynamic consumer
      pipelines within a single process when combined with the `tee`
      element.
    
    All queries, events, buffers, and buffer lists are proxied. State
    changes, clocks, and base times for the two pipelines are independent
    since the upstream and downstreams continue to be different pipelines.
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788200
    3f7e29d5