<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tt>not only the "average user" ... I design design special purpose HPCs (HPC clusters, and</tt> <tt> parallel file systems) for a living .. and I can't figure gstreamer out either, while what</tt> <tt> I am trying to do should not even be that hard. (getting gstreamer to stream an IP camera feed </tt> <tt>to be embedded in a html/web page.)</tt> <tt>Some sort of gui would definitely help.</tt> <tt> </tt> <tt>As for the docker container... yeah good luck with that, I know a bunch of people that are trying to build a robust, production level containers, so far containers don't deliver, especially when it comes to compatibility with older software.</tt> <tt> </tt> <tt>Ron </tt> <tt></tt> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/5/19 3:29 AM, gripsynth wrote: </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:1557048548429-0.post@n4.nabble.com"> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi all, GStreamer is extremely powerful and flexible, but to the average user, it's extremely hard to understand and use. gst-inspect-1.0, gst-launch-1.0, even those commands are impossibly hard to type :) What it lacks is a friendly UI. Imagine a drag-and-drop pipeline editor in the browser, with the default pipeline sending video and audio to the browser e.g. using the newly added webrtcbin. As default source, it would use either the camera, or videotestsrc (or was it testvideosrc? See what I mean??) The app could have four layers: Layer 0: GStreamer. This could be the local GStreamer install via the OS's package manager. Or, if that version is too old as in my case, a gst-build 'sandbox'. Layer 1: (optional) your own set of GStreamer plugins. As an example, I have a set of deep learning/inference plugins (face reco, obj detection, body pose etc.). Layer 2: HTTP API. Simply put, a gst-inspect/gst-launch wrapper written in Python e.g. as RESTful API. Provides all data needed by Layer 3. Layer 3: the fancy UI, HTML5 + JS (Vue.JS, React, whatever). Gives you access to all available GStreamer elements (in a sane way), to the pipeline as an editable graph, to each element and its properties (click on graph node opens dialog), launch button starts the pipeline (opens video window); get the textual notation of the pipeline (... ! ...), see the GStreamer log in an extra window etc. (Layer 4: package everything as a Docker container) The only open source project I'm aware of that resembles this is <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/bbc/brave">https://github.com/bbc/brave</a>, but it works at a higher abstraction level (which can be both good and bad). There were other attempts at implementing editors, all of them native (e.g. based on Qt), but none of those I'm aware of were successful. Is there any open source project with the aim to implement a web-based pipeline editor? Is there any interest to work on (or fund) such a project? -- Sent from: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/">http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/</a> _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a></pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>