H.264 webcam capture, missing GstMetaVideo API

[Tristan Matthews]

2012/11/21 Olivier Crête <olivier.crete at collabora.com>:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 20:04 +0400, Alexey wrote:
>> Is there any way to use hardware h.264 encoder with v4l2src element,
>> or I must use uvch264_src from plugins-bad?
>
> You must use uvch264_src if you want to use the encoder. The logitech
> C920 has a particularly traumatizing API.

You're probably better off using uvch264_src, but if you just want to
mess around there's this hack:

http://www.oz9aec.net/index.php/gstreamer/473-using-the-logitech-c920-webcam-with-gstreamer


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