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Old 12-02-2011, 07:30 PM   #1
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ximagesink


The following is from a FAQ for Cheese (webcam software)

I'm getting a really slow response with the video, the video is sluggish and everything looks quite slow, like as the video lags, what could i do?

You may have set "ximagesink" (X Window System (No Xv)) as video-output. This means, that your cpu is doing all the work. Change it to "xvimagesink" (X Window System (X11/XShm/Xv)) in order to let your graphics card do the work.

Where can I set those things mentioned in the answer above?

Just execute gstreamer-properties (or in the menu: Multimedia Systems Selector) and change it there

Okay, I've looked around enough in my system to know I don't know what I'm doing. Rather than do more harm than good I thought I'd post the question here. How do I get to the ximagesink and edit it safely?
 
Old 12-02-2011, 10:40 PM   #2
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been doing some research...

Well, for anybody who might be interested, I had to install gnome-media, then run gstreamer-properties from the terminal. I made the suggested changes as posted above with no real difference. I suspect the performance issues have more to do with V4L more than anything else.

If anybody can tell me how to improve video camera capture performance I'm all ears!
 
  


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