On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 10:09:10 +0300 Sebastian Dröge wrote: [...] > Please ask GStreamer development > related question on the GStreamer mailing list, someone else will be > able to help you there: > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel
Dear Sebastian, dear GStreamer developers, while waiting for the actual bug to be fixed in GStreamer, I am trying to modify the application (pdf-presenter-console, which is written in Vala) in order to work around the bug and force the GStreamer library to use avdec_mjpeg, in stead of jpegdec. For those who need more context, please take a look at the [Debian bug #863663] and at the [GStreamer bug 783267]. [Debian bug #863663]: <https://bugs.debian.org/863663> [GStreamer bug 783267]: <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783267> Well, my attempts to work around the bug are failing miserably! :-( Please someone help me! The code I added gets a reference to the GStreamer registry singleton by using Gst.Registry.get() . Then, it invokes its lookup_feature() method to find "jpegdec" and "avdec_mjpeg". It checks their ranks with get_rank() and finds jpegdec → rank 256 avdec_mjpeg → rank 64 It then sets swapped ranks with set_rank() : jpegdec → rank 64 avdec_mjpeg → rank 256 which are checked again and found to be set as desired. Nonetheless, the AVI file is still played at degraded quality, as if nothing had changed at all. The added Vala code (which I hereby release under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 or later) is: GLib.printerr("trying to access the GStreamer registry...\n"); Gst.Registry regist = Gst.Registry.get(); GLib.printerr("looking for jpegdec...\n"); Gst.PluginFeature jdplugin = regist.lookup_feature("jpegdec"); if (jdplugin != null) { GLib.printerr("jpegdec found with rank %u\n", jdplugin.get_rank()); jdplugin.set_rank(64); GLib.printerr("jpegdec set to rank %u\n", jdplugin.get_rank()); } else { GLib.printerr("jpegdec not found!\n"); } GLib.printerr("looking for avdec_mjpeg...\n"); Gst.PluginFeature mjplugin = regist.lookup_feature("avdec_mjpeg"); if (mjplugin != null) { GLib.printerr("avdec_mjpeg found with rank %u\n", mjplugin.get_rank()); mjplugin.set_rank(256); GLib.printerr("avdec_mjpeg set to rank %u\n", mjplugin.get_rank()); } else { GLib.printerr("avdec_mjpeg not found!\n"); } The output that I get is: trying to access the GStreamer registry... looking for jpegdec... jpegdec found with rank 256 jpegdec set to rank 64 looking for avdec_mjpeg... avdec_mjpeg found with rank 64 avdec_mjpeg set to rank 256 If I instead set jpegdec to rank 1, GStreamer spits out the following error: Gstreamer error Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in. Hence, it seems that I am actually modifying the ranks and that these modified ranks actually change something. But I seem to be unable to persuade GStreamer to use avdec_mjpeg in stead of jpegdec! Where am I going wrong? Could someone please take a look at this and provide some help? Thanks a lot for your time. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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