autovideosrc

autovideosrc — Wrapper video source for automatically detected video source

Properties

GstCaps * filter-caps Read / Write

Types and Values

Object Hierarchy

    GObject
    ╰── GstObject
        ╰── GstElement
            ╰── GstBin
                ╰── GstAutoVideoSrc

Implemented Interfaces

GstAutoVideoSrc implements GstChildProxy.

Description

autovideosrc is a video src that automatically detects an appropriate video source to use. It does so by scanning the registry for all elements that have Source and Video in the class field of their element information, and also have a non-zero autoplugging rank.

Example launch line

1
gst-launch -v -m autovideosrc ! xvimagesink

Synopsis

Element Information

plugin

autodetect

author

Jan Schmidt <thaytan@noraisin.net>, Stefan Kost <ensonic@users.sf.net>

class

Source/Video

Element Pads

name

src

direction

source

presence

always

details

ANY

Functions

Types and Values

GstAutoVideoSrc

typedef struct _GstAutoVideoSrc GstAutoVideoSrc;

Property Details

The “filter-caps” property

  “filter-caps”              GstCaps *

This property will filter out candidate sources that can handle the specified caps. By default only video sources that support raw rgb and yuv video are selected.

This property can only be set before the element goes to the READY state.

Flags: Read / Write

Since 0.10.14

See Also

autoaudiosrc, v4l2src, v4lsrc