Add some OpenCV processing to a gstreamer video stream

Question

I'm trying to have OpenCV process a frame in the middle of a gstreamer pipe.

I have one gstreamer pipe generating the stream, sending it to appsink for OpenCV code to receive:

v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! jpegenc ! appsink name=sink

And another pipe getting it from appsrc (to which OpenCV sends data) and outputting it on the screen:

appsrc name=src ! jpegdec ! xvimagesink

I open every frame with a pull-buffer request on sink and process it with OpenCV, then use push-buffer on src. I am doing all that in Python.

For some reason, that does not seem to work (segmentation fault).

But I'm not really trying to fix it; it's terribly inefficient anyway. I am just wondering whether there any better way to have OpenCV process the frame before it reaches an output sink?

Answer 1

Did you try gst-opencv? It supplies several opencv primitives as gstreamer plugins.

EDIT: Seems like it's merged into gst-plugins-bad, and the link above is outdated.