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

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi David,

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 01:13, David Topper wrote:
> 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).

this should all be possible, though I myself didn't test the
iee1394/dvdec part. Jan Schmidt did that some time ago and IIRC, it
worked for him.

Regards,

Ronald

PS if you define "not so productive" somewhat better, maybe we can use
it on bugzilla and fix it in the future.