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@@ -94,17 +94,32 @@ Using GStreamer plugin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To use GStreamer plugin from source tree, set the following environment so that -GStreamer can find it. +GStreamer can find it. This isn't necessary when libcamera is installed. export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=$(pwd)/build/src/gstreamer The debugging tool ``gst-launch-1.0`` can be used to construct a pipeline and test it. The following pipeline will stream from the camera named "Camera 1" -onto the default video display element on your system. +onto the OpenGL accelerated display element on your system. .. code:: - gst-launch-1.0 libcamerasrc camera-name="Camera 1" ! videoconvert ! autovideosink + gst-launch-1.0 libcamerasrc camera-name="Camera 1" ! glimagesink + +To show the first camera found you can omit the camera-name property, or you +can list the cameras and their capabilities using: + +.. code:: + + gst-device-monitor-1.0 Video + +This will also show the supported stream sizes which can be manually selected +if desired with a pipeline such as: + +.. code:: + + gst-launch-1.0 libcamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw,width=1280,height=720' ! \ + glimagesink .. section-end-getting-started |