# HG changeset patch
# User cannam
# Date 1204206060 0
# Node ID 7a27dbdd663ad47a92354e2c0418da2bcb62972b
# Parent  24859c958732f7d9d0edb05ebdfa0a08822131f6
* doc for buffering adapter

diff -r 24859c958732 -r 7a27dbdd663a vamp-sdk/doc-overview
--- a/vamp-sdk/doc-overview	Thu Feb 28 12:53:14 2008 +0000
+++ b/vamp-sdk/doc-overview	Thu Feb 28 13:41:00 2008 +0000
@@ -65,6 +65,14 @@
  of audio channels as they have available, without having to apply a
  channel management / mixdown policy themselves.
 
+ - Vamp::HostExt::PluginBufferingAdapter (new in version 1.2) provides
+ a means for hosts to avoid having to negotiate the input step and
+ block size, instead permitting the host to use any block size they
+ desire (and a step size equal to it).  This is particularly useful
+ for "streaming" hosts that cannot seek backwards in the input audio
+ stream and so would otherwise need to implement an additional buffer
+ to support step sizes smaller than the block size.
+
 The PluginLoader class can also use the input domain and channel
 adapters automatically to make the entire conversion process
 transparent to the host if required.