[gst-devel] grabbing frames from running stream

[Kapil Agrawal]

one way is add an identity element just before sink & using the handoff
signal , save the buffer ?
http://www.gstreamer.net/data/doc/gstreamer/0.10.3/gstreamer-plugins/html/gstreamer-plugins-identity.html

Best Luck
Kapil

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Andreas Lubensky <lubensky at cognitec.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to use gstreamer to play all kinds of video sources, especially
> webcams, video files and DVDs.
> In the framework i am using, video sources get grabbed image by image in a
> loop. Currently, i am not sure how to combine that with gstreamer. My idea
> is
> to write a video sink that always keeps a copy of the last image. But this
> seems rather ugly...i thought there might be some way to get a snapshot of
> a
> running stream. That might be no problem with webcams, but i couldn't
> figure
> out yet how to do it with video files.
> As i am new to gstreamer, i probably just need a nudge in the right
> direction...
>
>
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