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| author | Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com> | 2020-03-06 15:23:24 -0500 |
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| committer | Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> | 2020-03-07 01:58:08 +0200 |
| commit | 6f344f8942768ee217c54d56d1809b5a83496970 (patch) | |
| tree | c4f06b617d3675091140ef9794f94d6e5e195bf3 | |
| parent | 170def84c65b91b9d76603e768f254419aaa69b9 (diff) | |
gst: Document dependencies and quick usage
This is a quick startup guide allowing to build and use the GStreamer element
from the libcamera source tree.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | README.rst | 19 |
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@@ -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 |