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

Yasushi SHOJI yasushi.shoji at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 02:30:33 UTC 2017


Hi,

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:26 PM, simo zz <simon.zz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello @Arjen and @Yasushi,
>
> Thank you for your suggestions.
> I successfully implemented the initial pipeline in C, and now I need to use
> pads to monitor the data stream.
> Question:
> Do I need tee and queue even if I want to be able to monitor when each frame
> as been read ?

It depends.

Yes, if you want to stream processed image down to gstreamer pipeline.

No, If all you need to do is to analyze your video data with opencv and your
program don't need a branched gstreamer pipeline, along with the main saving
pipeline, to further process it.
-- 
          yashi


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