[PD] [OT] get video stream with pdgst from XIMEA camera

Jack jack at rybn.org
Thu Aug 22 17:08:59 CEST 2013


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Le 22/08/2013 16:51, IOhannes m zmölnig a écrit :
> On 08/22/13 16:13, Jack wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to get the stream from a XIMEA camera using gstreamer.
>> There is an example (in the XIMEA Linux Software Package) that use
>> gstreamer to get the stream. This example works fine on Ubuntu 12.04
>> (with kernel 3.8) and Ubuntu 13.04.
>> But i would like to get the stream with v4l2sink/v4l2src from gstreamer
>> with pdgst (or better, from [pix_video] ??? :).
>> My skills in C++ are bad and if someone can help me to modify the source
>> code (attached, dependencies : GTK+-2 and GStreamer-0.10) to make it
>> work only with v4l2src, it would be very nice.
>
> hmm, i'm sure this is really a problem which should be solved by XIMEA:
> they ought to provide proper v4l2 drivers, rather than creating their
> own framework which will only ever be used by their products, and expect
> each application to support their framework (that is: unless they are
> willing to pay me so that i can add support for their software)
I will email to XIMEA to suggest to use v4l2. It will be very more
simple for everyone in linux world...
>
>
> anyhow, after a quick glance at your sample code it seems that GStreamer
> is *not* used to grab the video, but only for displaying it.
> the actual grabbing is done in application space via the SDK.
> this basically means, that you cannot do it in pdgst.
>
> a rather quick hack would be to change the gstreamer output from
> "autovideosink" to "v4l2sink device=/dev/video42" and recompile the
> streamViewer.
> this should allow [pix_video] to access the video-stream via v4l2.
It is exactly what i do but it doesn't work.
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Jack
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