Trying to encode a captured frame as a Bitmap (.bmp)

[Antonio Ospite]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 15:53:27 -0700 (MST)
jackson80 <jackstuff3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay, I may have had a few eyes glaze over when I said my code looks like
> some code where I included a link. 
> 
> Well, here is actual working code. My problem in in the save_images_cb
> routine. I can set the caps to "image/png" and the code will extract and
> save a png coded image file. When I try to save a bitmap with caps defined
> as "image/bitmap", I get an error from gst_video_convert sample and it
> prints "Failed converting frame. Error: Cannot find any image encoder for
> caps image/bitmap". 
>

$ gst-inspect-1.0 | grep bitmap
libav:  avenc_bmp: libav BMP (Windows and OS/2 bitmap) encoder
libav:  avdec_bmp: libav BMP (Windows and OS/2 bitmap) decoder

$ gst-inspect-1.0 avenc_bmp | grep image
      image/bmp

It looks like "image/bmp" is the correct capability to pass to
gst_video_convert_sample().

Ciao,
   Antonio

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