How to implement a viewfinder using system camera

[stuartx]

Hi, I posted the following questions several days ago. However I cannot read replies even I received several emails saying that someone posted a reply to my question. I can not see my original post in "My latest posts" either. I desperately need your help. So I open a new thread for the same question and close the original. I hope this thread will work just fine. Thank you!

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Hi, I am going to implement a viewfinder program to view, capture and record video and pictures, using the system camera. Based on the document, I see two approaches, widgets solution and QGraphicView solution.

1. In widgets solution, I need to use QCamera and QCameraViewfinder (QMediaRecorder and QCameraImageCapture) classes for the implementation. If I want to manually arrange the QCameraViewFinder in the UI form of Qt creator, where can I get the widget symbol? I could not find it in the “Widget Box” of the Qt creator.

2. In QGraphicView solution, I need to use QGraphicView, QGraphicScene, and QGraphicsVideoItem classes. In this approach, how can I connect the QCamera to the scene ? ( or to the QGraphicsVedioItem?) Should I use other class to represent the camera device?

Which approach do you prefer? Is there any C++ examples for this kind of project?

Your help and advice are greatly appreciated.

[stuartx]

One more question: based on the document, the second approach has some performance penalty due to floating point number process. Is this a noticeable problem in today's hardware? Thanks.

[andreyc]

There is a "Camera Example":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qtmultimediawidgets-camera-example.html in Qt examples.
There are some other multimedia examples in Qt5.3.1/Examples/Qt-5.3/multimediawidgets/

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[stuartx]

andreyc,

I try to run the camera example. I get the following error:

@Starting /home/sxu/Documents/QtApp/multimediawidgets/build-camera-Desktop_Qt_5_3_GCC_32bit-Debug/camera...

(<unknown>:2287): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(<unknown>:2287): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(<unknown>:2287): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_ref_sink: assertion `GST_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(<unknown>:2287): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_get_bus: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed

(<unknown>:2287): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_bus_add_watch_full: assertion `GST_IS_BUS (bus)' failed

(<unknown>:2287): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_bus_set_sync_handler: assertion `GST_IS_BUS (bus)' failed

(<unknown>:2287): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_ref: assertion `object != NULL' failed
/home/sxu/Documents/QtApp/multimediawidgets/build-camera-Desktop_Qt_5_3_GCC_32bit-Debug/camera: symbol lookup error: /home/Qt/5.3/gcc/plugins/mediaservice/../../lib/libqgsttools_p.so.1: undefined symbol: gst_element_factory_list_get_elements
/home/sxu/Documents/QtApp/multimediawidgets/build-camera-Desktop_Qt_5_3_GCC_32bit-Debug/camera exited with code 127@

The gstreamer is installed in my system. Any thing did I miss?

Thanks.

[hugoclaesen]

I have the same on CentOS 6.3 (gstreamer 0.10.29) with Qt 5.3.2. I guess Qt 5.3.2 needs at least gstreamer 0.10.30 for gst_element_factory_list_get_elements.