Difference between gstvideooverlay and xoverlay

[Tim Müller]

On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 12:38 +0530, Mayank Agarwal wrote:

Hi,

> what is the difference between gstvideooverlay and xoverlay interfaces
> of gstreamer.
> IMO both are same since they both provide the window to video for
> rendering.

GstXOverlay was the name used in the old now unmaintained GStreamer
0.10, GstVideoOverlay is the name used in GStreamer 1.x. Otherwise it's
mostly the same, with a few minor naming changes here and there [*].

> Also i couldn't find file videooverlay.h needed by application which
> takes window from QT and media from gstreamer to play.

It comes with gst-plugins-base.

Cheers
 -Tim

[*]
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/tree/docs/random/porting-to-1.0.txt#n648

-- 
Tim Müller, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com