Opening a webcam which is already in use by a gst-launch

[Arjen Veenhuizen]

Yasushi SHOJI-2 wrote
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Arjen Veenhuizen
> <

> arjen@

> > wrote:
>> What one typically would do is write a little app and use a combination
>> of
>> tee and appsink:
>>
>> gst-launch-1.0 -e v4l2src device=/dev/webcam ! videoconvert !
>> video/x-raw,width=544,height=288,framerate=10/1 ! v4l2h264enc ! h264parse
>> !
>> tee name=t ! mp4mux ! filesink location=video.mp4 t. ! decodebin !
>> videoconvert ! "video/x-raw,format=I420" ! appsink
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to tee right before v4l2h264enc, so that you don't
> have to
> decode the frames you just encoded?
> 
> Unfortunately, the current tee[1] implementation do memcpy(), so if you
> don't
> need every single frame, I'd suggest using the "handoff" signal from the
> identity element or pad probes[2] to get the frame you want, copy it
> when you need it.
> If you have plenty of CPU time and memory memory bandwidth, don't
> worry about the above.
> 
> [1]:
> http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/Multiple-sink-usage-in-im6x-td4683174.html
> [2]: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/design/probes.html
> -- 
>                yashi

Ah, yes, off course, put tee before the encoder. Your suggestion to use the
hand-off signal is also a very good one.



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