[gst-devel] Multiple XVidio Windows

[Stefan Kost]

Hi,

Fredrik Persson wrote:
> Don't know if this helps, but...
> 
> You can only have one xvimagesink at a time. If you want to display two
> or more running video streams you can only have one xvimagesink, and
> then use ximagesink for the other one. (The difference is a "v".)
> 
> Of course, you can also use only ximagesink of you want.

You can actually have multiple xvimagesinks. xvinfo tells you haw many xvports
your graphics hardware has. This is the limiting number.

Stefan

> 
> /Fredrik Persson
> 
> On 10/9/07, *Sameer Naik* < sameer at allaboutif.com
> <mailto:sameer at allaboutif.com>> wrote:
> 
>     hi,
>     i am trying to play multiple video pipelines using the xvimagesink
>     video
>     output plugin.
> 
>     opening of the xdisplay and creation of the video window is done in my
>     application and the window id is made available to the xvimagesink
>     plugin, i.e. by catching the "prepare-window-id" message posted on the
>     bus.
> 
>     i opened two xwindows and ran two seperate video pipelines, hoping that
>     each of the pipelines would emit the "prepare-window-id" message and
>     then i would provide each pipeline with a seperate window. but it
>     appears that the message is emitted only once (by whichever pipeline is
>     executed first)
> 
>     is it possible to achieve what i am trying.
> 
>     what i am actually trying to do, to display different videos on the
>     screen simultaneously. something very similar to  a video wall. so each
>     zone of the wall is handled by a separate player pipeline.
> 
>     please help
>     thank you
>     ~sameer
> 
> 
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