summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/README.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'README.rst')
-rw-r--r--README.rst19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index fa141138..e60d7aec 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -64,4 +64,23 @@ for qcam: [optional]
for documentation: [optional]
python3-sphinx doxygen
+for gstreamer: [optional]
+ libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
+
+Using GStreamer plugin
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+To use GStreamer plugin from source tree, set the following environment so that
+GStreamer can find it.
+
+ export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=$(pwd)/build/src/gstreamer
+
+The debugging tool `gst-launch-1.0` can be used to construct and pipeline and test
+it. The following pipeline will stream from the camera named "Camera 1" onto the
+default video display element on your system.
+
+.. code::
+
+ gst-launch-1.0 libcamerasrc camera-name="Camera 1" ! videoconvert ! autovideosink
+
.. section-end-getting-started