Hi Zentara

I got the same hit. But I don't know that I'm really up to doing a build yet. I've posted this question on the GStreamer mailing list and the wxPerl Mailing list, but no response yet. I'm just not sure that a lot of people use wxMediaCtrl on Linux. Instead I found a peice of code which runs GStreamer directly:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w --

  use strict;
  use warnings;

  use GStreamer -init;

  my $loop = Glib::MainLoop -> new();

  # set up
  my file = "/tmp/foo.avi";
  my $play = GStreamer::ElementFactory -> make("playbin", "play");
  $play -> set(uri => Glib::filename_to_uri $file, "localhost");
  $play -> get_bus() -> add_watch(\&my_bus_callback, $loop);
  $play -> set_state("playing");

  # run
  $loop -> run();

  # clean up
  $play -> set_state("null");

  sub my_bus_callback {
    my ($bus, $message, $loop) = @_;

    if ($message -> type & "error") {
      warn $message -> error;
      $loop -> quit();
    }

    elsif ($message -> type & "eos") {
      $loop -> quit();
    }

    # remove message from the queue
    return 1;
  }
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I thought maybe I could use something like this in the Linux code. Not very Cross Platform, I know. But I don't know how to embed it in wxPerl. Anyhow both options would give me a working system.

Update Ah, I've just realised what you mean. Use the compiler to find out which package is missing! Good idea, I'll do that.

Thanks

Steve

... hi, ...yeah, i was going to make a little ps to my post to try to find an alternate method to your wxMediaCtl dilemma.... usually on linux, you run things directly... and i see you found some good code.

But I don't know how to embed it in wxPerl.

...possibly use Kbuntu's media controller?

....i havn't used Wx...i stick with plain Gtk2..... but there should be a way in the Wx design gui to do what is called an Glib idle_add or a timer to launch the code. ....i would launch it in a separate thread, or fork-and-exec the code, get the pid to kill it ... the thread is simpler, but fork-and-exec cleaner memory wise

on linux, you probably can embed the gstreamer object in one of your current windows, or just pop open a new toplevel window and display the imagery there

but this is something you should ask on the Wx maillist..... i'm just saying that gstreamer is a big lib, and interfacing is complex

here is some code that i used to use for experimentation..... it may be outdated as gstreamer is evolving fast

gst-launch -v ximagesrc ! video/x-raw-rgb,framerate=5/1 ! ffmpegcolors
+pace !  mux. avimux name=mux ! filesink location=ztest.avi
mencoder -vf scale=640:480 ztest.avi -ovc lavc -o ztest.mpg 
rm ztest.avi
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something like that can be run in a thread or piped-open....OR... you can try to use the Perl module interface to GStreamer.... but i would stick with the c program run thru ipc, so that memory cleanup is better

i mean, i have no idea of what your code actually does...these are just general design musings regarding linux guis

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