Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Using gstreamer for everything audio and video in ekiga

[Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr>]

Le 21/04/2014 17:18, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
> On 02/04/14 09:34, Julien Puydt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > here is a new version of the test code. Now the user interface is a
> > series of buttons and two combo boxes to choose from a few devices, both
> > for audio and video (no proper device detection yet -- the V4L2 choice
> > might fail if you don't have such a device).
> >
> > The next step is to add more comments, then make it possible to stop the
> > "call" and start a new one.
>
> I compiled your code: everything goes well.
>
> When executing, I noticed two things:
> - video is slow: perhaps 2-4 images per second

That is extremely surprising, as I have been working on a quite slow box 
where I should have known about performance issues...

> - the other video window is always several coloured vertical lines

Can you try the following two commands:
1. gst-launch videotestsrc ! ximagesink
2. gst-launch videotestsrc ! agingtv ! ximagesink
?

> Could you explain what is the ekiga architecture for video?  We have
> clutter thing, v4l2 plugin thing, X code thing in ekiga, now you propose
> gstreamer thing... how are they related?  What precisely will gstreamer
> code replace?

Gstreamer should replace mostly everything... connecting on one hand to 
opal for the network part and to Damien's clutter code for the video 
display.

At least, that's the goal.

Snark