From: Erik W. <om...@te...> - 2001-10-16 20:17:46
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Meloni Morgan-Johnson wrote: > Does gstreamer handle basic functions as well as audio/video/etc.? I > need an application to use on a hard drive or tape drive that's > connected to a firewire port. The system seems to recognize the device, > but I can't get it to actually write to or read from the drive with the > tar function. > > If gstreamer does not handle such menial tasks, can you suggest a > different Linux application? GStreamer is a framework for dealing with streaming media. If you need to store data on an external device of a specific format, a plugin has to exist to interact with that device. If you for instance want to write audio/video data to a firewire-attached disk, the default filesink will do the trick, probably in combination with something like an AVI, MPEG, or Quicktime multiplexor. If you want to store to tape, some kind of (very simple, actually) plugin to deal with the tape device can be written. If you're wanting to store video in DV format to a DV deck, the lower-layer 1394 subsystem is quickly approaching the point where a plugin can be written to write video data back to the tape, using the dv1394 driver. Erik Walthinsen <om...@te...> - System Administrator __ / \ GStreamer - The only way to stream! | | M E G A ***** http://gstreamer.net/ ***** _\ /_ |