GStreamer 1.7.1, ksvideosrc & dvsd

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Mo, 2016-01-18 at 14:47 +0100, Walter Horsten wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to display video from a firewire camera using gst-launch-
> 1.0 on a Windows 10 system.
> 
> gst-device-monitor-1.0 displays the following capabilities for my
> camera:
> 
> Device found:
> 
>         name  : Sony DV Camcorder
>         class : Video/Source
>         caps  : video/x-raw, format=(string)dvsd, width=(int)720,
> height=(int)480, framerate=(fraction)30/1, pixel-aspect-
> ratio=(fraction)1/1;
>                 video/x-raw, format=(string)dvsd, width=(int)720,
> height=(int)576, framerate=(fraction)25/1, pixel-aspect-
> ratio=(fraction)12/11;
>                 video/x-raw, format=(string)dvsd;
> 
> But I can't seem to find any element that has a sink that accepts
> video/x-raw, format=dvsd as input ?

That seems to be a bug in ksvideosrc. dvsd seems to be a fourcc for DV:
http://www.fourcc.org/dvsd/

ksvideosrc should be changed to map that fourcc to video/dv. Can you
file a bug about this, ideally with a patch to check if this works for
your device? :)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer

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Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · http://www.centricular.com

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