[Solved] How to set Gstreamer camberabin2 properties from Qt

njozwiak

Hi all,

I'm running Qt 5.4.0 with Gstreamer-0.10.36 in an embedded Linux environment and having issues with camera operation in Qt. Is it possible to set the Gstreamer camerabin2 plugin properties from Qt's QCamera API? Specifically I want to manually set the viewfinder sink to fbdevsink. This is possible using g_object_set() from a C application. But how would I control these properties from a Qt application?

Thanks

SGaist

HI,

AFAIK, no, however if you need more control over the pipeline, you should take a look at QtGStreamer

Hope it helps

njozwiak

That is correct.

I looked more in depth into the QtMultimedia plugin and found it setting the video sink statically to ximagesink on line 130 in qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.4.0/qtmultimedia/src/gsttools/qgstreamervideowidget.cpp:

m_videoSink = gst_element_factory_make ("ximagesink", NULL);

As a test, I did modify that line to use fbdevsink. And that provided some basic functionality. But the caps that control the filters, size, and position of the ximagesink are not valid in fbdevsink. So instead of the viewfinder being restricted to a small widget in the application, the video sink took up the entire screen... covering the rest of the application.

It's likely possible to get this working with other sinks outside of X11, but would take more customization of QtMultimedia's camerabin plugin.

SGaist

Then you should take a look at QtGstreamer, it might be worth it