What's wrong with this code?

[Mart Raudsepp]

Hello,

On R, 2012-01-27 at 13:20 +0900, Alberto Lepe wrote:
> Hello, these commands display the video from a network camera without problems:
> 
> gst-launch -v gnomevfssrc
> location="http://admin:12345@192.168.1.100/nphMotionJpeg?Resolution=320x240&Quality=Standard&Framerate=1"
> do-timestamp=true ! multipartdemux ! jpegdec ! xvimagesink
> 
> (Using capabilities = same result):
> gst-launch -v gnomevfssrc
> location="http://admin:12345@192.168.1.100/nphMotionJpeg?Resolution=320x240&Quality=Standard&Framerate=1"
> do-timestamp=true ! multipartdemux !
> image/jpeg,width=320,height=240,framerate=1/1 ! jpegdec !
> video/x-raw-yuv,framerate=1/1 ! xvimagesink

As an unrelated note, gnome-vfs is deprecated in all modern
distributions that I know of. Check out GIO and the giosrc element
instead. The GIO modules provided by the gvfs package in distributions
offer the support for remote protocols to GIO. That said, for http there
exists also souphttpsrc directly. That however isn't of course the
problem in your java or vala code, as it works with gst-launch.

> I'm trying to implement the above in Java and in Vala (for a benchmark):
> 
> Java Code:
> 
>     public static void main(String[] args) {
>         args = Gst.init("VideoTest", args);
>         final Pipeline pipe = new Pipeline("VideoTest");
> 	final Element videosrc = ElementFactory.make ("gnomevfssrc", "video");
> 	videosrc.set("location","http://admin:12345@192.168.1.100/nphMotionJpeg?Resolution=320x240&Quality=Standard&Framerate=1");
> 	videosrc.set("do-timestamp",true);
> 	final Element filter1 = ElementFactory.make ("multipartdemux", "demuxer");
> 	final Element videofilter1 = ElementFactory.make("capsfilter", "filter1");
>         videofilter1.setCaps(Caps.fromString("image/jpeg,width=320,height=240,framerate=1/1"));
> 	final Element filter2 = ElementFactory.make ("jpegdec","jpg");
> 	final Element videofilter2 = ElementFactory.make("capsfilter", "filter2");
>         videofilter2.setCaps(Caps.fromString("video/x-raw-yuv,framerate=1/1"));
> 
>         SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
> 
>             public void run() {
>                 VideoComponent videoComponent = new VideoComponent();
>                 Element videosink = videoComponent.getElement();
> 		pipe.addMany(videosrc, filter1, videofilter1, filter2, videofilter2,
> videosink);
> 		Element.linkMany(videosrc, filter1, videofilter1, filter2,
> videofilter2, videosink);
> 
>                 // Now create a JFrame to display the video output
>                 JFrame frame = new JFrame("Swing Video Test");
>                 frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
>                 frame.add(videoComponent, BorderLayout.CENTER);
>                 videoComponent.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(720, 576));
>                 frame.pack();
>                 frame.setVisible(true);
> 
>                 // Start the pipeline processing
>                 pipe.setState(State.PLAYING);
>             }
>         });
>     }
> 
> It opens a window and displays a black background (nothing else). I
> have tried without using the Caps but the result is the same.
> No errors are displayed.

Are you running a glib mainloop (I suppose there are java bindings for
doing so) somewhere or implementing the equivalent?
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/manual/html/chapter-bus.html  may be of use here.

> Vala Code:
> 
>     private void setup_gst_pipeline () {
>         var pipeline = new Pipeline ("mypipeline");
>         var src = ElementFactory.make ("gnomevfssrc", "video");
>         var src.set_property("location","http://admin:12345@192.168.1.100/nphMotionJpeg?Resolution=320x240&Quality=Standard&Framerate=1");
>         var src.set_property("do-timestamp",1);
>         var filter1 = ElementFactory.make ("multipartdemux","demuxer");
>         var filter2 = ElementFactory.make ("jpegdec","jpg");
> //        var filter2.set_property("caps",Caps.from_string("image/jpeg,width=320,height=240,framerate=1/1"));
>         var sink = ElementFactory.make ("xvimagesink", "sink");
> //        var sink.set_property("caps",Caps.from_string("video/x-raw-yuv,framerate=1/1"));
>         pipeline.add_many (src, filter1, filter2, sink);
>         src.link (filter1);
>         filter1.link (filter2);
>         filter2.link (sink);
>     }
> 
> I'm not setting any Caps in Vala as I still don't know which is the
> proper way to do it.
> It does nothing. No error no image (not even a black background as in Java).
> 
> I'm sure I'm missing something here. (sorry I'm noob in Gst).

Same question here. Also I assume you are setting the pipeline to
PLAYING in another place here.
https://live.gnome.org/Vala/GStreamerSample seems to have a sample with
the glib mainloop present.

If this was missing, it should get you further. Next up you'll probably
see problems from trying to link up things statically from the demuxer
as Nathanael described in the other reply. gst-launch has special code
via GstParse facilities to handle this via delayed links on its own to
simplify command line usage - it does the same automatically you'll need
to do in code (set up pad-added signal handlers, link things up from
there).

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/manual/html/chapter-pads.html should describe you how to handle such "Sometimes" pads conceptually and in C.


Best,
Mart Raudsepp