How to use Camerabin

[Josh Doe]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Ian Davidson
<id012c3076 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> I am attempting to use  camerabin to take snapshots.
>
> I see from a gst-inspect-1.0 of camerabin that a) the default mode is '(1):
> mode-image       - Still image capture' and b) there are two 'Element
> Actions' of 'start-capture' and 'stop-capture'.
>
> I assume that stop-capture is only required if the capture mode is
> 'mode-video'.
>
> What I don't know is how to initiate the start-capture.  I can see that the
> inspect tells me  that start-capture is
>
> void user_function (GstElement* object);
>
> but if I have declared an element called 'myBin' using
>
> myBin  = gst_element_factory_make ("camerabin",  "cambin1");
>
> how would I make it take a picture?

It's been a while, but I believe you would just then run:

g_signal_emit_by_name (myBin, "start-capture", 0);

-Josh