Multiple GStreamer elements in a window

[Luis de Bethencourt]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Kenny Meyer <knny.myer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Olivier Aubert
> <olivier.aubert at liris.cnrs.fr> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Instead of "compositing" the videos through gtk, you could composite
>> them directly in gstreamer with the videomixer element.
>> This site
>> http://www.oz9aec.net/index.php/gstreamer/347-more-gstreamer-tips-picture-in-picture-compositing
>> has great information and examples.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Olivier
>>
>> On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 21:30 -0300, Kenny Meyer wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am writing an application to view multiple network cameras (webcams
>>> over the Internet) on a wall in Python using the GTK+ toolkit, but I
>>> need to gather ideas about how to do that.
>>>
>>> I have 4 years experience with Python, but I just started to learn to
>>> use GStreamer recently.
>>>
>>> Basically, I have a GTK+ window, and I would like to display the camera
>>> outputs in a grid (GTK H/VBoxes). I wrote code where each camera cell
>>> would be a gtk.DrawingArea, but I cannot stop/play/pause the cameras on
>>> demand.
>>>
>>> I wonder if there would be a better approach?
>>>
>>> Could you please point me to existing code samples, documentation, etc;
>>> or give me further references to educational resources?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Kenny
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>
> Thanks Olivier! I thought about a single element (videomixer), but it
> should be possible to trigger events for each "video" like
> pause/play/stop. Can you do that with a single videomixer element?
> It still seems a little obscure to me if you don't have separate elements.

This shouldn't be a problem.

Luis
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