Video source (webcam) for win32

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 06:32 +0200, Tomasz Wasilczyk wrote:

Hi,

> I'm trying to get working video source on win32 gstreamer (both 0.10
> and 1.0). I see, that gstksvideosrc and gstdshowvideosrc isn't
> buildable on recent 0.10 nor 1.0 releases.
> 
> My question is: is there any working video source, that I could use
> for accessing webcam from win32?
> 
> I tried to fix gstksvideosrc shipped with gst-plugins-bad-1.0.7 (see
> [1]), but it doesn't seems to be an easy task - I've managed to get it
> building, but it won't work (there is no gst_pad_alloc_buffer routine
> in 1.0, see mingw-shotgun-debugging.patch). Am I near the solution, or
> fixing this module is a dead end?

Just use gst_buffer_new_and_alloc() - that's not optimal, but should
work just fine.

gst_pad_alloc_buffer() has been replaced by doing an ALLOCATION query
and using the allocator/bufferpool returned (if any).

Cheers
 -Tim