# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #Copyright (c) 2010, Walter Bender #Copyright (c) 2010, Tony Forster #Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy #of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal #in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights #to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell #copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is #furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: #The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in #all copies or substantial portions of the Software. #THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR #IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, #FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE #AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER #LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, #OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN #THE SOFTWARE. import gst, time GST_PIPE = ['v4l2src', 'ffmpegcolorspace', 'pngenc'] # GST_PIPE = ['v4l2src', 'ffmpegcolorspace', 'gdkpixbufsink'] class Camera(): """ A class for representing the video camera """ def __init__(self, imagepath): # self.imagepath = imagepath GST_PIPE.append('filesink location=%s' % imagepath) self.pipe = gst.parse_launch('!'.join(GST_PIPE)) self.bus = self.pipe.get_bus() # self.bus.add_signal_watch() # self.bus.connect('message', self._on_message) def _on_message(self, bus, message): ''' We get a message if a pixbuf is available ''' if message.structure is not None: print message.structure.get_name() if message.structure.get_name() == 'pixbuf': message.structure['pixbuf'].save(self.imagepath, 'png') def save_camera_input_to_file(self): """ Grab a frame from the camera """ self.pipe.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING) self.bus.poll(gst.MESSAGE_EOS, -1) def stop_camera_input(self): self.pipe.set_state(gst.STATE_NULL)