[gst-devel] getting data format info

[Hendrik Schober]

Benoit Fouet wrote:
> Hendrik Schober wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we are using (or is that abusing?) gstreamer in order to capture
>> video data from an USB camera. For this we have setup a v4lsrc
>> and a fake sink and grab the data in the handoff hook of the
>> latter. So far, so good. However, despite several hours of
>> tinkering we haven't found out how to determine what format
>> (width, height, encoding) the data comes in.
>> What do we need to do to get these values?
>>
>>   
> 
> if you're using gst-laucnh to do that, you can add -v to your command line

  No, we're doing this in code (C++).

  Schobi