Could not load library: gstinterfaces when using PropertyProbe

[gstreamer-java]

Could not load library: gstinterfaces when using PropertyProbe

[neilcsmith-net]

AFAIK it's been removed and replaced by https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gstreamer/html/gstreamer-device-probing.html

We need to remove the old mappings and look at mapping the new API!?

[sarxos]

I think we need to remove it since there is no need to keep dead code in a project. Not sure if we need to map new API now (at least from my perspective, but there may be users who will need it). On Linux and Mac I can iterate over source elements using integer number, but on Windows, with dshowvideosrc, device is mapped by name and it may be impossible to predict it. However, I read about ksvideosrc which takes device-index as an argument, so maybe it can be used instead, but I never use it before and need to verify.

[neilcsmith-net]

@sarxos Yes, absolutely we need to remove the dead code! The question bit was more about the device probing. We need to think about how we handle the addition of new API's in GStreamer while making sure the bindings keep working with older versions.

I'm using ksvideosrc in Praxis LIVE. I actually don't device probe at all. I use Bin.launch and provide a series of default launch strings for each platform, but allow the user to override them if required. Lots of benefits to doing that, like allowing for edge cases or alternative source elements.

[judoka1000]

Well i need to use the DeviceMonitor to get a list of devices(webcams in particular). But the problem is that i don't know how to start working on the implementation of DeviceMonitor in Gstreamer-Java.

Do you have any tips/tricks to do that?

[neilcsmith-net]

Device probing has been merged and will be in 0.9.1. Some work ongoing to remove dead API.

[neilcsmith-net]

Closing this as the enhancements are in and the removals are covered in other issues.