egglessink with Android.

[Andoni Morales]

2013/10/17 sabin <sabin.sathian at gmail.com>

> I am trying play video using gstreamer plugins on imx6 with Android 4.2.2.
>
> So I started with following pipeline: gst-launch-1.0 -v --gst-debug-level=4
> filesrc location=/mnt/sdcard/linkin.mp4 ! qtdemux ! h264parse !
> amcviddec-omxgoogleh264decoder ! eglglessink
> and got the error:
> "ERROR eglglessink-platform
> video_platform_wrapper.c:152:platform_create_native_window: Can't create
> native window "
> I see that eglglessink cant create a window in Android (it needs X11):
> create-window :
> "If set to true, the sink will attempt to create it's own window to render
> to if none is provided. This is currently only supported when the sink is
> used under X11 flags: readable, writable Boolean. Default: true"
>
> So the next thing I tried was to disable eglglessink from creating own
> window (coz from the source code I could see that if no X11 window is
> allowed, eglglessink will try to create using Xoverlay):
> gst-launch-1.0 -v --gst-debug-level=4 filesrc
> location=/mnt/sdcard/linkin.mp4 ! qtdemux ! h264parse ! avdec_h264 !
> eglglessink create-window=false
>
> "40 ERROR eglglessink gsteglglessink.c:649:gst_eglglessink_start: Window
> handle unavailable and we were instructed not to create an internal one.
> Bailing out. 0:00:00.635454334 3981 0x695040 ERROR eglglessink
> gsteglglessink.c:676:gst_eglglessink_start: Couldn't start"
>
> Did anyone succeded in using eglglessink on Android?
>

In android you need to provide a valid surface to the sink using the
GstVideoOverlay interface.
I would recommend you to read the Android tutorials to understand how it
works.
http://docs.gstreamer.com/display/GstSDK/Android+tutorial+3%3A+Video

Cheers,
Andoni

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