[PATCH] doc: gstreamer: Add missing queues

Nicolas Dufresne nicolas at ndufresne.ca
Fri Feb 2 10:08:05 CET 2024


From: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne at collabora.com>

As libcamerasrc reports some latency, a queue is needed in order to store the
data in case the buffers has been produced slightly ahead of our reported
latency.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne at collabora.com>
---
 README.rst | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 6b764fb7..cc39cd5f 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ onto the OpenGL accelerated display element on your system.
 
 .. code::
 
-  gst-launch-1.0 libcamerasrc camera-name="Camera 1" ! glimagesink
+  gst-launch-1.0 libcamerasrc camera-name="Camera 1" ! queue ! glimagesink
 
 To show the first camera found you can omit the camera-name property, or you
 can list the cameras and their capabilities using:
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ if desired with a pipeline such as:
 .. code::
 
   gst-launch-1.0 libcamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw,width=1280,height=720' ! \
-        glimagesink
+                 queue ! glimagesink
 
 The libcamerasrc element has two log categories, named libcamera-provider (for
 the video device provider) and libcamerasrc (for the operation of the camera).
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ the following example could be used as a starting point:
 
    gst-launch-1.0 libcamerasrc ! \
         video/x-raw,colorimetry=bt709,format=NV12,width=1280,height=720,framerate=30/1 ! \
-        jpegenc ! multipartmux ! \
+        queue ! jpegenc ! multipartmux ! \
         tcpserversink host=0.0.0.0 port=5000
 
 Which can be received on another device over the network with:
-- 
2.43.0



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