[gst-devel] Camerabin2 Plans

[Andoni Morales]

2010/11/24 Andoni Morales <ylatuya at gmail.com>:
> 2010/11/12 thiagossantos at gmail.com <thiagossantos at gmail.com>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> there has been some plans on the wiki for refactoring camerabin in an
>> attempt to simplify its internal design. After some discussion on IRC
>> lately, we've decided to put those ideas on a plan for implementing
>> camerabin2 instead of refactoring camerabin.
>>
>> As the design is different from the current camerabin and we were planning
>> to break some of the API, a new element sounded better as old applications
>> can continue using camerabin.
>>
>> Anyway, this plan has been put up on the wiki [1] and comments and
>> contributions are very welcome. We'd like to try to gather what features
>> potential users expect from it, any feedback on the new design or problems
>> with the current camerabin would help us providing a better element.
>
> Hi,
>
> Something I miss in the current design is the option to use the same
> element both as audio and video source. Actually you need to use 2
> source elements, the video one from the camera and an audio one. My
> use case is very particular, although I think it can be very useful
> for other people too.
> I'm currently using camerabin to preview and capture from DV cameras
> (dv1394src and dshowvideosrc)  and therefore the audio and video comes
> out from the same bin, which demux and decode the input providing 2
> source pads (video and audio) and can't be used with camerabin.  My
> app doesn't supports audio at the moment, but this is more or less how
> it should be done with the current design (I'm very bad with drawings,
> but I hope the idea is clear enough :))
>
>
>
My awesome drawing got split :)

 src-> demuxer -> video_decoder------>camerabin_video
                       |
                       ' ->audio ->appsink   appsrc-> camerabin_audio

> Currently, when you set the audio source element in camerabin it tries
> to add (or replace) it  in the pipeline, failing if the video source
> is the same element.
> I hope to have explained it clear enough :P
>
> Andoni
>> [1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/CameraBin
>>
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