[gst-devel] Reading DV frames from a handheld video camera (Firewire)?

[David I. Lehn]

* David Topper <topper at virginia.edu> [2004-04-21T19:17:09-0400]:
> My last venture into gstreamer wasn't all that productive.  But someone 
> now told me that it has a DV plugin?  I'm wondering if this is true, and 
> if in fact I might now be able to use gstreamer to read / write:
> 
> - V4L video frames (read)
> - DV video (read)
> - various + effects (write / display to screen)
> 
> I have a little Gnome/GTK app which I'd like to clean up by using 
> potentially one library, instead of currently three:  V4l, dvgrab, and 
> SDL (for video output).
> 

Simple things should work.  I haven't tried v4l code in a while though.
In theory you should be able to use v4lsrc, dv1394src, dvdec,
xvimagesink, and encoders and effects you need.  Probably even in a
simple pipeline on the command line something like this (untested):

$ gst-launch dv1394src ! dvdec ! edgeTV | xvimagesink

-dave