Re: [Gstd-devel] Information from a pipeline

[Justin H. <jus...@gm...>]

Wow, I can't believe I'm the first post... nice!

Bear in mind, all my comments come from a few hours of playing around with
this... so that says a couple things: (1) having never even heard of Vala
before, you can see that it was simple enough for me to add a method,
recompile, and get going in a short time, so kudos to Vala for that; on the
other hand (2) given my very little background with gstreamer, it's quite
possible I am recommending something that could already be done in a
different (better) way, hence my request for advice.

Yes, as you said, in some previous code when i was working with gstreamer
directly, without a Gnome/GObject binding, I was essentially trying to run
gst-launch in a child process, parse its standard out, send it signals, etc.
It worked, but it definitely wasn't pretty. GStreamer daemon is definitely a
better solution to this problem.

     -Justin

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Todd Fischer <tod...@ri...>wrote:

>  From: Justin Hartman <jus...@gm...>
> >
> > Date: April 14, 2010 8:13:16 PM CST
> >
> > To: gstd-devel <gst...@li...>
> >
> > Subject: [Gstd-devel] Information from a pipeline
> >
> >
> > Hi guys,
>
> Hi Justin,
>
> You get the honor of having the first post to gstd!
>
>
> > I followed the instructions on the gstd website to clone the repo & build
> gstd. I was up and running in a matter of minutes. Gstd is awesome!
>
> Glad it worked so well for you.  Please let us know what information is
> missing or if you generate any content you think would be helpful pass it
> our way.
>
> Diego and Maria and others will help get the caps feature working.
>
> I am responding to comment on several fronts.  Several of our customers
> struggled trying to incorporate the GStreamer calls into their
> applications.  We came up with a simplified framework for one customer, then
> the gstd light came on.
>
> We have thought about gstd for nearly a year before being able to make it
> real.  GStreamer Daemon was developed as part of a bigger deliverable for
> Texas Instruments.  I want to thank TI for their support of the FOSS
> community.  We are hopeful that more embedded products will use GStreamer
> when they see how easy it is.  If you have it found it already, you can see
> a QT GUI using gstd at
> http://showoff.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=showoff/showoff;a=summary
>
> We have thought a lot about Vala for a while as well.  It was a bit risky
> to decide to use Vala, but the more we use it, the more amazed at how it
> makes us more successful.  That said, Vala is still in development.  I
> believe we found one Vala and/or binding defect and it might be you found
> another.  We will work to get the feedback upstream to the Vala team as
> needed.  gstd seemed like a good first use of Vala for GStreamer.
>
>
> > Thanks for the great work on this! I'm really excited to start using it.
>
> In many ways gstd is still in its infancy.  Please provide any and all
> feedback - small or big.  We have several use models in mind and would love
> to hear your ideas as well.
>
> I am also looking for a CGI implementation showing how to interact with
> gstd via a web interface.  If you have anything to share along that front,
> pass it along.
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> >      -Justin
>
> Todd
>
>