[gst-devel] Reading and displaying a rtsp stream

[Michael Smith]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Ekrem SEREN <ekrem.seren at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to read a rtsp stream over network and view/record it. PlayBin
> works fine with rtsp like below;
>
> $ gst-launch playbin uri=rtsp://localhost:5554/Camera1
>
> It displays the stream. But I couldn't get it to work with my own pipeline;
>
> $ gst-launch -v rtspsrc location=rtsp://localhost:5554/Camera1 ! decodebin !
> fmpegcolorspace ! textoverlay text="fsvbzlvcjzjhkvhlkczvjkd " ! autovideosink

Does it work with another ffmpegcolorspace after the textoverlay? Your
video sink might not support I420 (the only format that textoverlay
supports).

You also in general might need a videoscale (though probably not in this case).

Mike