Comments on: Banshee, meet OpenVP

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:45:14 +0000

I already have such an element in the OpenVP.Capture project. But note that this element still requires a window open, or rather an OpenGL context to render to. So it would either be sink-only or would require some hackery to bring the video data to the pipeline without needing to open a window.

Also, I’m not sure how creating an element that uses Mono would work. If the application using gstreamer also uses Mono then it’s simple enough, but embedding the runtime in a gstreamer element? Not cool.

By: Stefan Kost

Stefan Kost — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:26:53 +0000

Having an openvp plugin in gstreamer [1] might be a good idea. Then several app besides banshee would benefit from it. GStreamer has a libvisual plugin that could be used as a template. Drop me a mail if you are interested or come to #gstreamer on irc.freenode.org.

[1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:52:12 +0000

My patch adding a visualization data source to managed land should be committed Real Soon Now and should be in before 1.4. Whether OpenVP will be released with Banshee remains to be seen but if it’s not I will have a downloadable extension available.

By: John McHugh

John McHugh — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:46:01 +0000

Any news, is this coming soon?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:10:57 +0000

I haven’t found anything that solves this, and I’ve since reverted to a single-monitor setup for many reasons. Compiz Fusion might eventually give us this if it doesn’t already.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:19:43 +0000

This is probably not the appropriate place to leave you a message for this regard, but I can’t quite find your contact information Anyhow, I was searching for the dead space in TwinView solution and saw you were asking the very same question in 2006 as well. I’ve yet to see a solution online, so I was wondering if you had found one?

Screen shots look awesome by the way