v4l2src extension

[David Röthlisberger]

On 4 Sep 2012, at 15:25, Chuck Crisler wrote:
> 
> I didn't know that. Thank you for the information. Perhaps I don't have to do anything! :-) Chuck
> 
> On 1 Sep 2012, at 11:44, David Röthlisberger wrote:
>> On 31 Aug 2012, at 15:40, Chuck Crisler wrote:
>>> I am developing a dedicated app, initially for video. I need to work with some Sensory devices that include capabilities beyond the current V4L2, specifically a H.264 encoder.
>> 
>> What about the H.264 encoder is beyond the capabilities of v4l2src? I
>> use v4l2src with a Hauppauge HD PVR capture card that delivers H.264 in
>> MPEG-TS, and I use a pipeline like v4l2src ! mpgetsdemux ! decodebin2.

Excellent. :-)

Make sure you install gst-plugins-bad (for mpegtsdemux) and gst-ffmpeg
(for ffdec_h264, used by decodebin2).

Also there is an element called tsdemux that also does mpeg-ts demuxing
but I don't know which one of tsdemux and mpegtsdemux is "better".