Getting Firewire webcam feed [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Ian Davidson]

Hi Mitch,

You should think of GStreamer rather like a collection of LEGO bricks.  
Put them together the right way and you can make anything you want.

Your example has merely specified where it should get its input from - 
but you haven't specified what you want to do with it.

Take a look at the documentation 
(http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/) and skim through the 
Application Development Manual.  Although this is labelled "Read This 
First", it does dive straight into programming - but look at the section 
"Utility applications provided with GStreamer" and the section on 
gst-launch.  Also, look at the man pages on gst-launch.

At the very least, you will need some sort of 'sink' to take your video 
stream and display it somewhere, maybe xvimagesink.  You may need to 
process the video and store it using 'filesink'.

When you read about the individual elements, many of them will give 
examples of a pipeline to make use of them which you can then adapt to 
handle your source.

Hope that helps

Ian

On 22/05/2013 08:53, Doran, Mitchell (Student) wrote:
> Getting Firewire webcam feed [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
>
> *UNCLASSIFIED*
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I feel bad bothering the mailing list with something as trivial is 
> this. I am not familiar with digital video concepts, codecs, gstreamer 
> and pipes however I have been tasked to get some older firewire 
> cameras working on Ubuntu 12.10. I have figured out that I want to use 
> dv1394src to get my video feed and when I run
>
> Gst-launch-0.10 dv1394src
>
> It seems to work. Unfortunately I am so new to this that I havent been 
> able to work out the correct codecs and pipelines to actually display 
> any output on the screen. There doesn't seem to be many resources 
> online regarding the use of Gstreamer with firewire cameras.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Mitch Doran
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