Hi People,

I have been developing a wxPerl application for about a year now, one of my outstanding issues is how to get a live video feed to display. So far I have been using Wx::MediaCtrl and all my testing has been done on stored videos. However, I feel the time has come to bite the bullet and get the live feed to work. I am developing on Linux (Kubuntu) and Wx::MediaCtrl uses GStreamer as the back end. I had hoped that I could simply use:

$success_status = $i_frame->{Ctl_Videos_Media}->LoadURI ('/dev/video0');

but it doesn't work, it doesn't give me an error message, and it doen't even return a success status (but if I do a GetStatus on it I get '0').

My second thought was:

• run ffmpeg from the command line: ffmpeg -f oss -ac 2 -ar 48000 -i /dev/dsp -acodec pcm_s16le -f video4linux2 -s 720x480 -r 30000/1001 -i /dev/video0 -sameq -aspect 4:3 -f avi -vcodec mjpeg -r 30000/1001 -y test.avi, which works fine.
• Then use $i_frame->{Ctl_Videos_Media}->Load ('test.avi');, which also works but only for the video recorded *before* MediaCtrl started. When it gets to the point in time where the webcam was when the program started it crashes. That is to say, you can't Seek to the end of the .avi file and play what is currently being added to it.

*However*, there is hope, if I run the following command at a command prompt: gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! tee name=videoout ! queue ! videorate ! video/x-raw-yuv,fps=15 ! queue ! theoraenc quality=60 ! queue ! muxout. oggmux name=muxout ! filesink location=lulz.ogg videoout. ! queue ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink, I get a stored file which I can seek through and a live feed being displayed through a window with about a half-second latency. If only that window was a MediaCtrl window it would be perfect. As gst-launch is a GStreamer application and Wx::MediaCtrl uses Wx::GStreamerMediaBackend, I assume that I can somehow splice these programs together, but here I get lost.

As usual, your wisdom and thoughts would be very welcome.

Regards

Steve

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