Creating auto sinks may unnecessarily allocate resources and interfere with another playback. This is true for embedded devices where the sink allocates resources in a READY state (WesterosSink, Realtek, Amlogic, Broadcom). For example in the secondary (video-only) playback use case: the audio sink interferes with the main playback. Another use case is support for "external" playback (or playback with "decoder" sink elements). In this case, we want playbin2 to auto-plug needed elements.
Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/13612
Committed 263972@main (bfa95384feb8): <https://commits.webkit.org/263972@main> Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #13612 and removing active labels.
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