GStreamer video playback in VL

Elias · August 11, 2018, 10:06am

Just to put it out there, a video player using GStreamer. It works in VL as well as in vvvv.
Was working on it a couple of months ago but last I checked it was still working. Ideas and suggestions all welcome!

Elias · January 19, 2019, 4:19pm

Quick update: Now available as a package hosted on nuget.org - see install instructions on project website.

AKa-visuals · January 20, 2019, 1:34am

Hi i made it works in last beta, but duration and loop seems to be broken,any tip to fi it,_? it would be pretty nice to get speed and other data so can be very useful for vj scenario.
thanks

Elias · January 20, 2019, 1:54pm

Can you be more specific on what is broken and what you wish for? With looping I know that there’re still issues, sometimes taking a long time to get into the loop and sometimes even worse it gets stuck completely. Probably not using the right flags internally yet for certain API calls.

catweasel · March 10, 2020, 1:06pm

Thought I’d give it another go, not much luck.

Elias · March 20, 2020, 1:46pm

From the error you get I’d say check the gstreamer installation again - pls follow the install instructions as written in the readme on the github page to the point. Just checked again on a local machine and example patch works fine here.

tonfilm · March 20, 2020, 2:51pm

@catweasel i’ve also added an installer note to the github readme.

catweasel · March 20, 2020, 10:24pm

That got it going, I did reinstall gstreamer, but I guess the complete was the bit that was missing?
I set it switching files (not spreaded) it threw an error after a couple of minutes and froze when saving the log.
There you have to toggle play on switching files, and there is a slight pause at the start, is it buffering?

catweasel · March 20, 2020, 10:25pm

I then opened in latest preview and opened the VL editor, at which point the node went red, and the input pins lost there types

Elias · March 22, 2020, 12:20pm

At the moment the latest previews of vvvv beta and gamma use a different incompatible VL version - this is also explained in the install instructions on VL.GStreamer. For beta you need to install a specific version, for gamma you can install the latest version. This is a temporary state, and will be fixed once we release 2020.1 and can bring beta up to that version as well.

Regarding the StateChangeException - will need to have a look at some point. But feel free to open an issue here so it’s easier for everyone to track. https://github.com/vvvv/VL.GStreamer/issues