[gst-devel] Question about DVD playback, Inputs, IPTV

[Jan Schmidt]

On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 08:14 +0200, Jens Schneider wrote:

> Then i saw, that the DVD menu is not shown. I have installed the plugin
>  dvdnav from ugly. This works generally, but i saw no menu overlays (no
>  selection). Then i found out that the usage of the resindvd plugin is
>  suggested. I have installed it, but no changing.

You need a recent gst-plugins-bad to get the resinDVD plugin, and
gst-plugins-base 0.10.22 to get a version of playbin that knows how to
handle the DVD subpicture display in order to get the menus working.

> So my question is, what will be suggested?
> And what is the status about full DVD support?
> 
> Furthermore our application gets the inputs (mouse, keyboard, touch screem)
>  from the system. So we know all about the user inputs and would like to put
> it in the gstreamer pipe (or something like that). So the dvdnav or the
> resindvd plugin can process the inputs.

Mouse and keyboard events are propagated using the GstNavigation
interface, which is implemented by xvimagesink and ximagesink, for
example. If you really need to implement the blitting yourself, then
you'll need to also generate the GstNavigation events yourself and send
them up the pipeline from your fakesink/appsink video endpoint.

You should probably look at the xvimagesink source code for how to
generate those events.

> Another question is, that the resindvd resides in the bad plugins package.
> What does "bad" means?

Read the blurb text that's in every set of gst-plugins-bad release
notes:
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/gst-plugins-bad/0.10.11.html

> Is it not recommended to use it?
> I found no documentation about dvdnav and resindvd.
> Is it in progress? How can i get the available properties of it?

resindvd replaces and obsoletes dvdnavsrc. There's no documentation
written yet though. There will be before resinDVD moves to
gst-plugins-ugly, which will be its eventual home when its good enough
(it's nearly there).

> Next i will try gstreamer and IPTV.
> Which plugins (or which pipe) i have to use?
> Can i work with playbin?

No idea, sorry.

> After this i plan to check the TI Davinci support.
> Can you please give me a link or a recommendation for that?

No idea there either. I've been wanting to get my hands on some DaVinci
hardware for a while so I could learn, but so far no luck.

Cheers,
Jan.

> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards
> Jens
-- 
Jan Schmidt <thaytan at noraisin.net>