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authorWim Taymans <wim.taymans@collabora.co.uk>2012-06-05 14:38:25 +0200
committerWim Taymans <wim.taymans@collabora.co.uk>2012-06-06 09:14:57 +0200
commit4e06fccf417839589c2df75112d0fcedd7823edf (patch)
tree3c97f1f73cf7ae0c6b32007f6252b13757d17ebb
parent1f008928aef2e373bc97bac812835d4e5b531c49 (diff)
docs: talk about the filter caps
-rw-r--r--docs/design/part-negotiation.txt4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/design/part-negotiation.txt b/docs/design/part-negotiation.txt
index f01b9b100..c48b1ec48 100644
--- a/docs/design/part-negotiation.txt
+++ b/docs/design/part-negotiation.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ A pad can ask the peer pad for its supported GstCaps. It does this with
the CAPS query. The list of supported caps can be used to choose an
appropriate GstCaps for the data transfer.
The CAPS query works recursively, elements should take their peers into
-consideration when constructing the possible caps.
+consideration when constructing the possible caps. Because the result caps
+can be very large, the filter can be used to restrict the caps. Only the
+caps that match the filter will be returned as the result caps.
(in) "filter", GST_TYPE_CAPS (default NULL)
- a GstCaps to filter the results against