[maemo-developers] Single frame capture with gstreamer

[From: Mohammed Hassan]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:01 +0100, ext Fabrice Desré wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I'm trying to build a gstreamer pipeline to take snapshots (only on 
> picture) from the camera. I'd like one for the N810 and one for the N900.
> 
> On the N810, I came up with :
> gst-launch v4l2src num-buffers=1 ! video/x-raw-
> rgb,width=640,height=480,framerate=8/1 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! jpegenc ! 
> filesink location=test.jpg

Use v4l2camsrc instead of v4l2src

> The pipeline is executed as it should, but the jpeg file is a black 
> frame... I tested v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink to check the 
> camera hardware and it's ok.
> 
> For the N900, I'd be grateful for any help since I don't have this lovely 
> device yet ;-)

I guess you need gst-launch camerabin filename="foo.jpg" (Not 100%
sure). Try gst-inspcct camerabin

Maybe you can use gdigicam
(http://maemo.gitorious.org/fremantle-gdigicam) for that ?

Cheers,

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Senior Software Engineer
Maemo Software