Re: support MJPEG based webcams

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

hi,

daniel g. siegel schrieb:
> On Di, 2008-03-11 at 00:25 +0000, Ioannis Nousias wrote:
>> Hi
>>
> 
> hey!
> 
>> I have a webcam that produces MJPEG video output. It's supported by the 
>> linux-uvc driver (v4l2).
>>
>> Using my webcam with Cheese, displays a blank window. I presume the 
>> constructed pipe doesn't decode the MJPEG output to raw rgb.
>>
>> Is it possible to add checks for the video format and automatically 
>> insert appropriate elements in the video pipe? For instance my camera 
>> works by inserting a 'decodebin' element. e.g.
>> gst-launch v4l2src ! decodebin ! xvimagesink
> 
> yeah, we are doing such a probing, but we do not insert a decodebin
> element. if you want, you can have a look into cheese-webcam.c and see
> if you are able to add your device somehow!
>

a jpegdec should be enough.

Stefan

> 
> daniel
> 
>> thank you for this nice application.
>>
>> -Ioannis
>>
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