I can't find it but is there a way to capture the stream coming in on a mediaview control so it can be saved as a video file?

if it is not possible is there a control that will do this?

Have you thought about using Youtube.dl? This can be controlled from within Gambas very easily and is available from the software repository in Ubuntu, Mint etc. and probably other distros as well.

 Not easily i should think.

MediaView is limited in what it can do,
you might find something with MediaControl which is the gambas GStreamer interface

You will need to search for if it can be done with GStreamer and if yes then figure out how to get MediaControl to do the same.

BruceSteers has correctly suggested to you to use the "MediaControl" Class of the gb.media Component, which however should be used for example in conjunction with the "MediaPipeline" Class.
Well, now I show below a simple code to capture the video - video only, no audio - played in a "MediaView" Control of the gb.media Component. From those capturated data a video file of the "Matroska" format will then be created.
The "MediaView" Control consists of "Children" and "sub-Children" (…grandchildren).
One of these "sub-Children" is a "DrawingArea", which is the Object with which the "MediaView" Control displays images and videos.
We will identify the identification number of this "DrawingArea", constitutive of the "MediaView" Control, and with a particular Property of the "ximagesrc" plugin we will capture the video it shows.
The following code is only illustrative, therefore we will capture only the video data of a video file uploaded and executed by the "MediaView" Control.

 I will have to take some time going thru that code you provided. hurts my brain right now.

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 Hi,

I am trying to go the other way and can't seem find a way to stream out of mediaview, here what I have been working on:

Public bo As Boolean

Public Sub Form_Open()
 bo = True
End

Public Sub send_Click()
 Dim pl As MediaPipeline
 Dim src, aco, wen, snk, rtp, udp As MediaControl
 Dim flt As MediaFilter
 pl = New MediaPipeline
 src = New MediaControl(pl, "alsasrc")   
 aco = New MediaControl(pl, "audioconvert")
 flt = New MediaFilter(pl, "audio/x-raw,rate=44100,depth=16,channels=2,width=16,signed=true")
 rtp = New MediaControl(pl, "rtpL24pay")
 udp = New MediaControl(pl, "udpsink host=192.168.3.15 port=5001")
 src.LinkTo(aco)
 aco.LinkTo(flt)
 flt.LinkTo(rtp)
 rtp.LinkTo(udp)
 pl.Play()
 While bo
   TextBox1.Text = Str(Time(0, 0, 0, pl.Position * 1000))
   Wait 0.01
 Wend
 pl.Stop()
 pl.Close()
 Quit
End

Public Sub stop_Click()
  bo = False
End

Public Sub Form_Close()
  bo = False
End

This is what I tested on gstreamer and it works:
'gst-launch-1.0 alsasrc ! audioconvert ! audio/x-raw,rate=48000,depth=8,channels=2,width=16 ! rtpL24pay ! udpsink host=192.168.3.15 port=5001

What is best way to do this using mediaview, as I have not found a way to get this to work?

GrantXTV said

 udp = New MediaControl(pl, "udpsink host=192.168.3.15 port=5001")

"HOST" and "PORT" are properties of the "udpsink " GStreamer Plugin.
Therefore they should be highlighted and separated.
……
udp = New MediaControl(pl, "udpsink")
udp["host"] = "192.168.3.15"
udp["port"] = 5001
……

GrantXTV said

This is what I tested on gstreamer and it works:
'gst-launch-1.0 alsasrc ! audioconvert ! audio/x-raw,rate=48000,depth=8,channels=2,width=16 ! rtpL24pay ! udpsink host=192.168.3.15 port=5001

What is best way to do this using mediaview, as I have not found a way to get this to work?

If you want to use "gst-launch-1.0 ", you will have to use its corresponding external function "gst_parse_launch()", since it has not been implemented in the Gambas gb.media Component.

Exemplum:
https://www.gambas-it.org/wiki/index.php/Eseguire_un_file_audio_usando_una_linea_di_pipeline_con_la_funzione_%27gst_parse_launch()%27