I was in touch with Jon Nordby (who wrote it in the first place) and he thinks it's because I was using the older pyGTK bindings rather than pygobject- pycairo doesn't use gobject, it uses its own wrapper, which explains it.<br>
<br>
So, I'm trying to get it to work in GStreamer 1.0, which Jon suggested- however, it doesn't seem to <i>have</i> cairooverlay, even though I've installed gstreamer1.0-plugins-good from the developers ppa (on Ubuntu 12.04), it seems to be there <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/tree/ext/cairo?h=0.11" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" link="external">in the source</a>, but gst-inspect-overlay0.10 doesn't list cairooverlay, or indeed cairo-anything. I poked around the .deb and it does not appear to be there but I'm not very familiar with the structure of .deb packages. I guess the deb might be slightly out of juncture?<br>
<br>(Also, gstreamer was complaining about the jack audio server not being installed- I installed the package from the Ubuntu main repo and started jackd myself and it worked, but it ought to be a dependency resolved by the gstreamer package, right?)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Tim-Philipp Müller-2 [via GStreamer-devel] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4657630&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">[hidden email]</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Sat, 2012-12-29 at 00:36 -0800, RoyWiggins wrote:
<br><br>Hi Roy,
<br><div><br>> Hi gstreamer folks, I'm having this exact problem and haven't found
<br>> remedy elsewhere. I can't say if it's a problem with the python
<br>> gstreamer bindings, or cairooverlay itself, or indeed both, but I
<br>> thought you guys might be able to give me a hand. I'm not averse to
<br>> trying to fix the binding if it needs fixing, but again I'm entirely
<br>> new to delving into python C bindings.
<br><br></div>I can't see anything wrong in the cairooverlay element right now, it
<br>passes the right GType when registering the signal, so my guess is that
<br>it's an issue somewhere in/around pygobject.
<br><br>Or possibly you are just missing the right import statement for the
<br>cairo gobject stuff?
<br><br>Cheers
<br> -Tim
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