[gst-devel] scientific app experiences?

[Zaheer Merali]

On 6/4/07, Martin Pokorny <mpokorny at nrao.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been playing with gstreamer recently as a framework for a scientific
> application I'm developing. The application functions as a pipeline operating on
> live streaming data from a scientific instrument, sorting the data, processing
> it, and writing the results to a file. Initial test results are promising; I've
> been able to achieve roughly 80% of the performance of my previously developed
> application without any real attempts at optimizing the gstreamer-based
> application. The potential benefit of the gstreamer-based app would be its
> flexibility, extensibility and added functionality (such as the message bus and
> events).
>
> Before I proceed with my development much further, I'd like to ask whether
> anyone on this mailing list has had any experience using gstreamer in a similar
> scientific application. I've tried to find some information on gst-sci, but I
> haven't found anything recent, and that causes me to worry that others have
> tried going this route only to give it up because gstreamer was unsuitable. Of
> course, I'd be interested in hearing about successes as well as failures, so
> that I can better understand which sorts of applications might work and which
> might not. I can provide more information about my particular application should
> that be useful.
>
> --
> Martin
>
I have used GStreamer to receive live experiment data, create contour
plots and export to png images as well as videos. It worked well, but
this was in the GStreamer 0.8 days.

Zaheer