hook up new device as src, uri, or something else ?

[Mandar Joshi]

>   The device delivers YUV pixels to memory. I can grab them from  memory mapped buffers. I’d like to plug them into the gstreamer software, but I’m not sure where.
>
>   I started with the source for videotestsrc, but I need something more than just a handful of colors.
>   Next I thought v4l2src, but I don’t need something that does all the v4l2 driver protocol. Something
>  closer to filesrc, but live, non-seekable. I just need to grab pixels from memory (that memory mapped
>  buffer), and put them out as video.

You could try writing a bin. It's simpler.
You can refer to my youtubebin https://github.com/mndar/gstyoutubebin
which allows you to use the youtube-dl script in a GStreamer pipeline.

Regards
Mandar Joshi
Czar Softech