System Software Meeting Minutes, 2006-10-25

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:04 -0400, Owen Williams wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:39 +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> AI: Blizzard to find out dependencies on mplayer, use it to demo camera
>>>     * if too many dependencies, build ourself and put in our own repo
>>>       
>> I heard this mentioned on the call last night. Is mplayer going to be
>> the standard video player or is this just a temporary solution?  I
>> thought olpc was going to be using GStreamer.
>>
>>     
>
> One of the redhat guys had mentioned that they had a gstreamer pipeline
> (for use w/ gst-launch-ext) that should work w/ v4l2.  I forget who it
> was; John?  Blizzard?  Dan?  I forgot to follow up, but if anyone has
> one please do email it to me.  Mplayer has far more dependencies than we
> need (although aalib camera output in the console and playing around w/
> the touchpad in gpm has certainly been fun ;)
>
>   

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-base-plugins/html/gst-plugins-base-plugins-ximagesink.html

Marco