HELP: RGB buffer format query (I am trying to pass a buffer to appsrc)

[Edward Anon]

My bad - the buffer sizing is incorrect. If the width is a multiple of 3 it
works.

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 4:03 PM Edward Anon <blakat360 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Before figuring out how to make an appsrc take an OpenGL texture, I wanted
> to pass an RGB buffer.  I played with this
> <https://gist.github.com/floe/e35100f091315b86a5bf#file-gst-appsrc-c-L14>
> example for a while and ended up with this code
> <https://pastebin.com/A0vnK5LB>.
>
> Like the example, I can happily get the screen to alternate between white
> and black. However, I don't understand the structure of the buffer
> GStreamer expects.
>
> Why does GStreamer seem to expect the minimum buffer size to be WIDTH *
> HEIGHT * CHANNELS + HEIGHT? Why is it not just WIDTH * HEIGHT * CHANNELS
> for an RGB buffer (where the array passed as the buffer is an array of
> bytes)? Why would I want to pass a larger buffer?
>
> Also, when I try to set the colour to green, red or blue and only write to
> the first WIDTH * CHANNELS bytes in the buffer I get one clean row of the
> expected colour. However, this row changes colour when I write to the next
> WIDTH * CHANNELS bytes. Why is this? How do I fix it?
>
> I suspect the queries are related. Thanks in advance.
>
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