On Do, 2008-03-13 at 13:08 +0000, Ioannis Nousias wrote: > > 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! > > > > > Thanks, I did. My distro (ubuntu gutsy) doesn't meet cheese's > prerequisites, so I've installed hardy on a VM, but usb is flaky (I can > rarely get it to map on the VM). By the way I've met a segfault (why > does it start from index 1 when looking for available webcams?). I'll do > some tests later. > > As far as I understand, 'decodbin' is non-intrusive when the stream is > uncompressed. It simply forwards it. It probably is cleaner to simply > add a 'decodebin' (and probably an 'ffmpegcolorspace' as well) in the > pipe rather than having explicit checks for possible cases, since these > are already done by the 'decodbin'. Similarly why I didn't suggest using > 'jpegdec'. Mind you, I doubt there is a webcam with some other form of > compression. In fact, mine is not even a webcam. It's a regular camera > with a webcam mode of operation. However, my rule of thumb is to make as > little assumptions as possible. i wouldnt just add a gst element, just because it doesnt do anything. this can have performance regressions and stuff of that kind. daniel > > Anyway, I'll play with it and see how it behaves on different devices. > > regards, > Ioannis > > > _______________________________________________ > Cheese-list mailing list > Cheese-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/cheese-list -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gmail com> http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel gnupg key id: 0x6EEC9E62 fingerprint: DE5B 1F64 9034 1FB6 E120 DE10 268D AFD5 6EEC 9E62 encrypted email preferred
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