Added gst_buffer_copy(). It's not complete, it should copy more stuff like flags and such. FIXME.

Original commit message from CVS:
Added gst_buffer_copy().  It's not complete, it should copy more stuff
like flags and such.  FIXME.

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gst/gstbuffer.c b/gst/gstbuffer.c
index 5f29ab84d..db9c9d429 100644
--- a/gst/gstbuffer.c
+++ b/gst/gstbuffer.c
@@ -395,3 +395,21 @@ gst_buffer_remove_meta (GstBuffer *buffer, GstMeta *meta)
   buffer->metas = g_slist_remove (buffer->metas, meta);
   gst_meta_unref (meta);
 }
+
+
+
+GstBuffer *
+gst_buffer_copy (GstBuffer *buf)
+{
+  GstBuffer *newbuf;
+
+/***** FIXME: this is not complete, it doesn't copy everything it should *****/
+  newbuf = gst_buffer_new();
+  GST_BUFFER_SIZE(newbuf) = GST_BUFFER_DATA(buf);
+  GST_BUFFER_DATA(newbuf) = malloc(GST_BUFFER_SIZE(buf));
+  memcpy(GST_BUFFER_DATA(newbuf),GST_BUFFER_DATA(buf),GST_BUFFER_SIZE(buf));
+  GST_BUFFER_OFFSET(newbuf) = GST_BUFFER_OFFSET(buf);
+  GST_BUFFER_TIMESTAMP(newbuf) = GST_BUFFER_TIMESTAMP(buf);
+
+  return newbuf;
+}
diff --git a/gst/gstbuffer.h b/gst/gstbuffer.h
index bf9fe23f3..1a89f9a8a 100644
--- a/gst/gstbuffer.h
+++ b/gst/gstbuffer.h
@@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ void 		gst_buffer_unref		(GstBuffer *buffer);
 /* destroying the buffer */
 void 		gst_buffer_destroy		(GstBuffer *buffer);
 
+/* copy buffer */
+GstBuffer*	gst_buffer_copy			(GstBuffer *buffer);
+
 /* add, retrieve, and remove metadata from the buffer */
 void 		gst_buffer_add_meta		(GstBuffer *buffer, GstMeta *meta);
 void 		gst_buffer_remove_meta		(GstBuffer *buffer, GstMeta *meta);