[gst-devel] pixbuf from video file

[Luis de Bethencourt]

I'll give it a try this afternoon.

Thanks a lot,
Luis de Bethencourt

On 8/2/07, Tim Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 20:32 +0100, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
>
> > ... I would need to get a pixbuf from the frame at the middle
> > of the video. First frame is not as representative because of
> > fade ins. How can I do this in gstreamer?
>
> You might want to have a look at totem's video-thumbnailer for
> inspiration. It's a bit clunky, but fairly straight-forward (basically
> it just uses playbin, sets it to PAUSED state, seeks, gets the last
> frame via playbin's "frame" property and shoves that into a conversion
> pipeline to get a GdkPixbuf).
>
> You can probably achieve the same thing with a pipeline like:
>
>  filesrc location=video.file ! decodebin ! ffmpegcolorspace !
> videoscale !
> video/x-raw-rgb,width=64,height=64,bpp=24,depth=24,red_mask=... !
> fakesink
>
> and then get a RGB24 buffer via fakesink's preroll-handoff signal (which
> is emitted in PAUSED state), which in turn is easily convertible into a
> GdkPixbuf or whatever you need.
>
> Cheers
>  -Tim
>
>
>
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