Just a quick clue that might help, try using multifilesrc ? <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Timothy Braun <<a href="mailto:braunsquared@gmail.com">braunsquared@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hello Everyone, I'm fairly new to G-Streamer so any input you can provide is much appreciated. I'm working on a project where we need to generate a 2 minute video which is a composite of a total of 24 input videos. The output video will have 4 different 30 second sections, each containing a 3x2 grid of the smaller input videos. The input videos are all naturally at 240x240 with the goal of having a final output frame size of 720x480. Using gst-launch, I've been able to construct a sample 30 second clip using a combination of inputs, videoboxes and a videomixer. Here is what I've come up with so far: videomixer name=mix ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ffenc_mpeg1video ! ffmux_mpeg name=mux ! queue ! filesink location=output.mpg adder name=adder ! audioconvert ! ffenc_mp2 ! mux. filesrc location=loop1.mp4 ! decodebin name=decode1 decode1. ! videobox border-alpha=0 top=-240 left=0 ! queue ! mix. decode1. ! adder. filesrc location=loop2.mp4 ! decodebin name=decode2 decode2. ! videobox border-alpha=0 top=-240 left=-240 ! queue ! mix. decode2. ! adder. filesrc location=loop3.mp4 ! decodebin name=decode3 decode3. ! videobox border-alpha=0 top=-240 left=-480 ! queue ! mix. decode3. ! adder. filesrc location=loop4.mp4 ! decodebin name=decode4 decode4. ! videobox border-alpha=0 top=0 left=0 ! queue ! mix. decode4. ! adder. filesrc location=loop5.mp4 ! decodebin name=decode5 decode5. ! videobox border-alpha=0 top=0 left=-240 ! queue ! mix. decode5. ! adder. filesrc location=loop6.mp4 ! decodebin name=decode6 decode6. ! videobox border-alpha=0 top=0 left=-480 ! queue ! mix. decode6. ! adder. Now I need to do this 4 times, each time with a potentially different video in each box. I've started looking into C interfaces as there's other pieces of the puzzle which need to be tied into this, and I am trying to determine the best way to tackle this. I originally was looking at Gnonlin, but the documentation is lacking in regards to how gnloperations work. I also recently stumbled upon the GES library by Edward Hervey, this looks promising as well, but I haven't been able to spend much time on it. If I go the Gnonlin route, I believe I would need 6 compositions, one for each box. At the 30 second marker, I would swap the filesource to a new one using dynamic pads and listening for messages on the pipeline bus. Am I far off on this? Any suggestions? As for the GES library, it looks very promising and powerful from the little I read on it. Would this be the smarter route to take? If so, does anyone have any suggestions for how the pipeline would be structured? Thank you in advance for your time on this and I truly appreciate any information you are willing to share with me. Happy Thanksgiving, Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev</a> _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">gstreamer-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </blockquote></div> -- <a href="http://www.mediamagictechnologies.com">www.mediamagictechnologies.com</a> (Gstreamer, ffmpeg, Red5, Streaming) twitter handle: @gst_kaps <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/kapilagrawal">http://www.linkedin.com/in/kapilagrawal</a>