[gst-devel] Building a DVR application with Gstreamer.

[Stefan Kost]

Peter Cai schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> I am preparing to build a DVR (Digital Video Recorder) based on gstreamer.
>
> Basically, what it does is:
>
> 1. Get encoded H264 D1 Element Stream from hardware, an encoder card.
> 2. Save the video stream in mp4 format to hard driver.
> 3. When user requests, send out the stream by RTP.
>
> So I think the gstreamer's pipeline concept are perfect for this task
> and I've finished reading the tutorial of gstreamer.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. What plugins' docs should I read for further info.(There are so
> many gstreamer plugins)
Those of the plugins that you need :). But it would be good it you play
a bit with e.g. gst-launch. Look at the examples we have in each of the
gstreamer modules (under test/examples).
> 2. It's said that "Manually adding or removing data from/to a
> pipeline" is NOT suggested, 
> then what is the proper way to add the video stream from the hardware
> SDK to a pipeline?
Write a source plugin for that. Is that card using a standart linux
kernel interface or is there only a custom driver for it?

Stefan
>
> Thanks in advance.
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