I have a need to have the video output of a GStreamer pipeline rendered to a DrawingBox or similar control on a Gambas form. I've taken a look at some of the media examples, but I'm not sure I'm understanding the paradigm yet.  The simple example pipeline I'm testing with:


I'd like the media to be rendered to a drawing area element on the Gambas form (not autovideosink popup).  From some examples I've looked at this seems like it's possible, but I'm not understanding out to pass the reference to the drawing area to the MediaPipeline control.  From examples I see I can make a pipeline maybe with something like:

But how to link the output to a form element isn't clear to me.  

Any advice/guidance welcomed!  Thank you.

Well,
if you want to use in Gambas the external functions of the GStreamer library directly, then I suggest:
   https://www.gambas-it.…ioni_esterne_di_GStreamer

If you want to use the resources of <COLOR color="#800000">gb.media</COLOR> Component (based on GStreamer) of Gambas, then I suggest:
   https://www.gambas-it.…on_il_Componente_gb.media

Thanks.  For right now I'd like to see if I can just use the gb.media system.  I've done some more testing.  Here is a snip of code that will open the videotestsrc video content in a popup window:


But what I need to have happen is to not display the video in the window that autovideosink opens, but to display the video in a DrawingArea (or similar type component) on a Gambas form.  I've read about the 'SetWindow' methods on the MediaPIpeline and MediaControl classes, but I am still not seeing/understanding how to use this so I can display the video content in the Gambas form.  

Thanks to anyone who knows and can help!

For displaying the "video-test", "autovideosink " Element does not seem to support the "DrawingArea" Control through the ".SetWindow()" Method.
I believe that you must use the "<COLOR color="#800000">Playbin</COLOR>" Element, for example as follows:

Hi Vuott,

Unfortunately when I cut/paste the playbin example into a new form, I am getting an error "Cannot set status in FMain:28" at this line:
oPipeline.Play.  I made sure to add the gb.media component to the project.

Any idea what is going wrong for me?  I did a quick google search of that error + gb.media but didn't see solution.

In case it's helpful, I did try to run the playbin pipeline via gst-launch and got an error:


I'm using GStreamer 1.16.3 on this machine.

EDIT: Some additional info:

I made a change to the playbin uri to play a file:


This plays the sample video, but the video takes the entire width/height of the gambas form, and not just within the location of DrawingArea1.

Piper984 said

Unfortunately when I cut/paste the playbin example into a new form, I am getting an error "Cannot set status in FMain:28" at this line:
oPipeline.Play.

I don't know why it doesn't work for you.
It works regularly for me.

Piper984 said

I did try to run the playbin pipeline via gst-launch and got an error:

Code

$gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri="testbin://video,pattern=videotestsrc,is-live=true,horizontal-speed=1"

I tried this command line with "gst-launch-1.0" and it works regularly for me.

Piper984 said

I'm using GStreamer 1.16.3 on this machine.

I also have 1.16.3 GStreamer version.

Piper984 said

This plays the sample video, but the video takes the entire width/height of the gambas form, and not just within the location of DrawingArea1.

We need to see the code.

Hello Vuott and forum,

I made some progress on my own, and I am closer with my test on what I am looking to do with Gambas, but now quite there yet.

The following code works to display the output of the videotesrc plugin from GStreamer:


However, the video takes the entire form area, and not the location of the DrawingArea1.  I've also tried to set the X,Y, W, H but this isn't working with the ximagesink.

Here is the form I created:
<IMG src="http://www.pitchpipetuner.com/gambas/screen_gui_editor.jpg"> </IMG>

and here is the form when I run the code:
<IMG src="http://www.pitchpipetuner.com/gambas/screen_gui_running.jpg"> </IMG>

As you can see, the output of the pipeline takes the entire area of the form.  But what I want is for the video to be bound by the X,Y,H,W of DrawingArea1.

Thanks for any help here.

Capuring: Replacing ximagesink with xvimagesink and I now think I am getting what I need:


<IMG src="http://www.pitchpipetuner.com/gambas/screen_gui_working.jpg"> </IMG>

I will post back to this thread with any additional learnings.  I am hoping to use Gambas for a quick UI for a streaming application rather than using C / GTK3+.

Piper984 said

I made some progress on my own

Code (gambas)

1. oSNK = New MediaControl(oPipeline, "ximagesink")

Bravo, so you discovered that with "videotestsrc" you need the "ximagesink" plugin.

Piper984 said

Capuring: Replacing ximagesink with xvimagesink and I now think I am getting what I need:

…using C / GTK3+.

However to me the video is shown within the limits of the "DrawingArea" with both "ximagesink" and "xvimagesink", both with QT and GTK+3

…with audio (mono-tone) too: