How would I use gstreamer to stitch a set of images together to form a video slideshow.

Question

I'd like to take a set of images and a sound track and use that to form a basic video slideshow using gstreamer.

There seems to be a lot of documentation and examples of basic gstreamer usage like playing a video or audio file, or even transcoding and the like. But I can't seem to find anything particularly useful for, I suppose, video editing tasks.

I feel that I have a decent grasp of the fundamentals of gstreamer, but I'm having trouble conceptualising how I would join the dots, so to speak. Specifically the bit where I take a set of images and turn them into a single video output.

Answer 1

Do you want to write a program? I think you should check out ffmpeg for making a video by providing a set of images. Its cross platform and hence may suit your need.

I hope it helps.

If you want related to gstreamer library then you can check out source code of various gstreamer based open source applications here.

Answer 2

Use pitivi.

If you want to write the program anyway you should use gnonlin, the library pitivi is built upon. You would be putting together a gnlcompositon. See also http://wiki.pitivi.org/wiki/PyGST_Tutorial

Answer 3

What if the application is to be built in GStreamer. Like if we are using say Ridgerun for Leopard Board which provides really nice support for the GStreamer but not for other libraries mentioned above like pitivi or gnonlin.

Is this kind of application feasible in GStreamer?