[gst-devel] how to use gst-launch for playing yuv video files without any header?

[Felipe Contreras]

On Jan 14, 2008 4:32 PM, Nikhil Raveendranathan
<Nikhil_Raveendranathan at mindtree.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I tried using gst-launch for playing yuv (I420) files in the following way:
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>  gst-launch filesrc location=test.yuv ! xvimagesink
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> Since I couldn't play the file, I also tried out a program with elements
> filesrc, capsfilter and xvimagesink, setting caps with values for format,
> framerate, width, height and aspect-ratio. I could see that the caps was
> getting set for capsfilter element, and also upon checking out the
> negotiated caps for xvimagesink, I could find that the same caps (as for
> capsfilter) are getting set after caps negotiation. Now the file was getting
> played, but I was only seeing some greenish images instead of the original
> video.
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> Has anyone tried this out before? Does anyone know why this is so?

Yes, I've done that.

What is the actual gst-launch command you tried to run?

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Felipe Contreras