1 /* GStreamer Video Overlay interface
2 * Copyright (C) 2003 Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
3 * Copyright (C) 2011 Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.net>
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21 * SECTION:gstvideooverlay
22 * @short_description: Interface for setting/getting a window system resource
23 * on elements supporting it to configure a window into which to render a
28 * The #GstVideoOverlay interface is used for 2 main purposes :
32 * To get a grab on the Window where the video sink element is going to render.
33 * This is achieved by either being informed about the Window identifier that
34 * the video sink element generated, or by forcing the video sink element to use
35 * a specific Window identifier for rendering.
40 * To force a redrawing of the latest video frame the video sink element
41 * displayed on the Window. Indeed if the #GstPipeline is in #GST_STATE_PAUSED
42 * state, moving the Window around will damage its content. Application
43 * developers will want to handle the Expose events themselves and force the
44 * video sink element to refresh the Window's content.
50 * Using the Window created by the video sink is probably the simplest scenario,
51 * in some cases, though, it might not be flexible enough for application
52 * developers if they need to catch events such as mouse moves and button
56 * Setting a specific Window identifier on the video sink element is the most
57 * flexible solution but it has some issues. Indeed the application needs to set
58 * its Window identifier at the right time to avoid internal Window creation
59 * from the video sink element. To solve this issue a #GstMessage is posted on
60 * the bus to inform the application that it should set the Window identifier
61 * immediately. Here is an example on how to do that correctly:
63 * static GstBusSyncReply
64 * create_window (GstBus * bus, GstMessage * message, GstPipeline * pipeline)
66 * // ignore anything but 'prepare-window-handle' element messages
67 * if (!gst_is_video_overlay_prepare_window_handle_message (message))
68 * return GST_BUS_PASS;
70 * win = XCreateSimpleWindow (disp, root, 0, 0, 320, 240, 0, 0, 0);
72 * XSetWindowBackgroundPixmap (disp, win, None);
74 * XMapRaised (disp, win);
76 * XSync (disp, FALSE);
78 * gst_video_overlay_set_window_handle (GST_VIDEO_OVERLAY (GST_MESSAGE_SRC (message)),
81 * gst_message_unref (message);
83 * return GST_BUS_DROP;
87 * main (int argc, char **argv)
90 * bus = gst_pipeline_get_bus (GST_PIPELINE (pipeline));
91 * gst_bus_set_sync_handler (bus, (GstBusSyncHandler) create_window, pipeline);
98 * <title>Two basic usage scenarios</title>
100 * There are two basic usage scenarios: in the simplest case, the application
101 * knows exactly what particular element is used for video output, which is
102 * usually the case when the application creates the videosink to use
103 * (e.g. #xvimagesink, #ximagesink, etc.) itself; in this case, the application
104 * can just create the videosink element, create and realize the window to
105 * render the video on and then call gst_video_overlay_set_window_handle() directly
106 * with the XID or native window handle, before starting up the pipeline.
109 * In the other and more common case, the application does not know in advance
110 * what GStreamer video sink element will be used for video output. This is
111 * usually the case when an element such as #autovideosink or #gconfvideosink
112 * is used. In this case, the video sink element itself is created
113 * asynchronously from a GStreamer streaming thread some time after the
114 * pipeline has been started up. When that happens, however, the video sink
115 * will need to know right then whether to render onto an already existing
116 * application window or whether to create its own window. This is when it
117 * posts a prepare-window-handle message, and that is also why this message needs
118 * to be handled in a sync bus handler which will be called from the streaming
119 * thread directly (because the video sink will need an answer right then).
122 * As response to the prepare-window-handle element message in the bus sync
123 * handler, the application may use gst_video_overlay_set_window_handle() to tell
124 * the video sink to render onto an existing window surface. At this point the
125 * application should already have obtained the window handle / XID, so it
126 * just needs to set it. It is generally not advisable to call any GUI toolkit
127 * functions or window system functions from the streaming thread in which the
128 * prepare-window-handle message is handled, because most GUI toolkits and
129 * windowing systems are not thread-safe at all and a lot of care would be
130 * required to co-ordinate the toolkit and window system calls of the
131 * different threads (Gtk+ users please note: prior to Gtk+ 2.18
132 * GDK_WINDOW_XID() was just a simple structure access, so generally fine to do
133 * within the bus sync handler; this macro was changed to a function call in
134 * Gtk+ 2.18 and later, which is likely to cause problems when called from a
135 * sync handler; see below for a better approach without GDK_WINDOW_XID()
136 * used in the callback).
140 * <title>GstVideoOverlay and Gtk+</title>
143 * #include <gst/interfaces/xoverlay.h>
144 * #include <gtk/gtk.h>
145 * #ifdef GDK_WINDOWING_X11
146 * #include <gdk/gdkx.h> // for GDK_WINDOW_XID
149 * static gulong video_window_xid = 0;
151 * static GstBusSyncReply
152 * bus_sync_handler (GstBus * bus, GstMessage * message, gpointer user_data)
154 * // ignore anything but 'prepare-window-handle' element messages
155 * if (!gst_is_video_overlay_prepare_window_handle_message (message))
156 * return GST_BUS_PASS;
158 * if (video_window_xid != 0) {
159 * GstVideoOverlay *xoverlay;
161 * // GST_MESSAGE_SRC (message) will be the video sink element
162 * xoverlay = GST_VIDEO_OVERLAY (GST_MESSAGE_SRC (message));
163 * gst_video_overlay_set_window_handle (xoverlay, video_window_xid);
165 * g_warning ("Should have obtained video_window_xid by now!");
168 * gst_message_unref (message);
169 * return GST_BUS_DROP;
173 * video_widget_realize_cb (GtkWidget * widget, gpointer data)
175 * #if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(2,18,0)
176 * // This is here just for pedagogical purposes, GDK_WINDOW_XID will call
177 * // it as well in newer Gtk versions
178 * if (!gdk_window_ensure_native (widget->window))
179 * g_error ("Couldn't create native window needed for GstVideoOverlay!");
182 * #ifdef GDK_WINDOWING_X11
183 * video_window_xid = GDK_WINDOW_XID (gtk_widget_get_window (video_window));
188 * main (int argc, char **argv)
190 * GtkWidget *video_window;
191 * GtkWidget *app_window;
193 * app_window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
195 * video_window = gtk_drawing_area_new ();
196 * g_signal_connect (video_window, "realize",
197 * G_CALLBACK (video_widget_realize_cb), NULL);
198 * gtk_widget_set_double_buffered (video_window, FALSE);
200 * // usually the video_window will not be directly embedded into the
201 * // application window like this, but there will be many other widgets
202 * // and the video window will be embedded in one of them instead
203 * gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (ap_window), video_window);
206 * gtk_widget_show_all (app_window);
208 * // realize window now so that the video window gets created and we can
209 * // obtain its XID before the pipeline is started up and the videosink
210 * // asks for the XID of the window to render onto
211 * gtk_widget_realize (video_window);
213 * // we should have the XID now
214 * g_assert (video_window_xid != 0);
216 * // set up sync handler for setting the xid once the pipeline is started
217 * bus = gst_pipeline_get_bus (GST_PIPELINE (pipeline));
218 * gst_bus_set_sync_handler (bus, (GstBusSyncHandler) bus_sync_handler, NULL);
219 * gst_object_unref (bus);
221 * gst_element_set_state (pipeline, GST_STATE_PLAYING);
228 * <title>GstVideoOverlay and Qt</title>
231 * #include <glib.h>
232 * #include <gst/gst.h>
233 * #include <gst/interfaces/videooverlay.h>
235 * #include <QApplication>
236 * #include <QTimer>
237 * #include <QWidget>
239 * int main(int argc, char *argv[])
241 * if (!g_thread_supported ())
242 * g_thread_init (NULL);
244 * gst_init (&argc, &argv);
245 * QApplication app(argc, argv);
246 * app.connect(&app, SIGNAL(lastWindowClosed()), &app, SLOT(quit ()));
248 * // prepare the pipeline
250 * GstElement *pipeline = gst_pipeline_new ("xvoverlay");
251 * GstElement *src = gst_element_factory_make ("videotestsrc", NULL);
252 * GstElement *sink = gst_element_factory_make ("xvimagesink", NULL);
253 * gst_bin_add_many (GST_BIN (pipeline), src, sink, NULL);
254 * gst_element_link (src, sink);
259 * window.resize(320, 240);
262 * WId xwinid = window.winId();
263 * gst_video_overlay_set_window_handle (GST_VIDEO_OVERLAY (sink), xwinid);
265 * // run the pipeline
267 * GstStateChangeReturn sret = gst_element_set_state (pipeline,
268 * GST_STATE_PLAYING);
269 * if (sret == GST_STATE_CHANGE_FAILURE) {
270 * gst_element_set_state (pipeline, GST_STATE_NULL);
271 * gst_object_unref (pipeline);
272 * // Exit application
273 * QTimer::singleShot(0, QApplication::activeWindow(), SLOT(quit()));
276 * int ret = app.exec();
279 * gst_element_set_state (pipeline, GST_STATE_NULL);
280 * gst_object_unref (pipeline);
293 #include "videooverlay.h"
296 gst_video_overlay_get_type (void)
298 static GType gst_video_overlay_type = 0;
300 if (!gst_video_overlay_type) {
301 static const GTypeInfo gst_video_overlay_info = {
302 sizeof (GstVideoOverlayInterface),
313 gst_video_overlay_type = g_type_register_static (G_TYPE_INTERFACE,
314 "GstVideoOverlay", &gst_video_overlay_info, 0);
317 return gst_video_overlay_type;
321 * gst_video_overlay_set_window_handle:
322 * @overlay: a #GstVideoOverlay to set the window on.
323 * @handle: a handle referencing the window.
325 * This will call the video overlay's set_window_handle method. You
326 * should use this method to tell to a XOverlay to display video output to a
327 * specific window (e.g. an XWindow on X11). Passing 0 as the @handle will
328 * tell the overlay to stop using that window and create an internal one.
333 gst_video_overlay_set_window_handle (GstVideoOverlay * overlay, guintptr handle)
335 GstVideoOverlayInterface *iface;
337 g_return_if_fail (overlay != NULL);
338 g_return_if_fail (GST_IS_VIDEO_OVERLAY (overlay));
340 iface = GST_VIDEO_OVERLAY_GET_INTERFACE (overlay);
342 if (iface->set_window_handle) {
343 iface->set_window_handle (overlay, handle);
348 * gst_video_overlay_got_window_handle:
349 * @overlay: a #GstVideoOverlay which got a window
350 * @handle: a platform-specific handle referencing the window
352 * This will post a "have-window-handle" element message on the bus.
354 * This function should only be used by video overlay plugin developers.
357 gst_video_overlay_got_window_handle (GstVideoOverlay * overlay, guintptr handle)
362 g_return_if_fail (overlay != NULL);
363 g_return_if_fail (GST_IS_VIDEO_OVERLAY (overlay));
365 GST_LOG_OBJECT (GST_OBJECT (overlay), "window_handle = %p", (gpointer)
367 s = gst_structure_new ("have-window-handle",
368 "window-handle", G_TYPE_UINT64, (guint64) handle, NULL);
369 msg = gst_message_new_element (GST_OBJECT (overlay), s);
370 gst_element_post_message (GST_ELEMENT (overlay), msg);
374 * gst_video_overlay_prepare_window_handle:
375 * @overlay: a #GstVideoOverlay which does not yet have an Window handle set
377 * This will post a "prepare-window-handle" element message on the bus
378 * to give applications an opportunity to call
379 * gst_video_overlay_set_window_handle() before a plugin creates its own
382 * This function should only be used by video overlay plugin developers.
385 gst_video_overlay_prepare_window_handle (GstVideoOverlay * overlay)
390 g_return_if_fail (overlay != NULL);
391 g_return_if_fail (GST_IS_VIDEO_OVERLAY (overlay));
393 GST_LOG_OBJECT (GST_OBJECT (overlay), "prepare window handle");
394 s = gst_structure_new_empty ("prepare-window-handle");
395 msg = gst_message_new_element (GST_OBJECT (overlay), s);
396 gst_element_post_message (GST_ELEMENT (overlay), msg);
400 * gst_video_overlay_expose:
401 * @overlay: a #GstVideoOverlay to expose.
403 * Tell an overlay that it has been exposed. This will redraw the current frame
404 * in the drawable even if the pipeline is PAUSED.
407 gst_video_overlay_expose (GstVideoOverlay * overlay)
409 GstVideoOverlayInterface *iface;
411 g_return_if_fail (overlay != NULL);
412 g_return_if_fail (GST_IS_VIDEO_OVERLAY (overlay));
414 iface = GST_VIDEO_OVERLAY_GET_INTERFACE (overlay);
417 iface->expose (overlay);
422 * gst_video_overlay_handle_events:
423 * @overlay: a #GstVideoOverlay to expose.
424 * @handle_events: a #gboolean indicating if events should be handled or not.
426 * Tell an overlay that it should handle events from the window system. These
427 * events are forwarded upstream as navigation events. In some window system,
428 * events are not propagated in the window hierarchy if a client is listening
429 * for them. This method allows you to disable events handling completely
435 gst_video_overlay_handle_events (GstVideoOverlay * overlay,
436 gboolean handle_events)
438 GstVideoOverlayInterface *iface;
440 g_return_if_fail (overlay != NULL);
441 g_return_if_fail (GST_IS_VIDEO_OVERLAY (overlay));
443 iface = GST_VIDEO_OVERLAY_GET_INTERFACE (overlay);
445 if (iface->handle_events) {
446 iface->handle_events (overlay, handle_events);
451 * gst_video_overlay_set_render_rectangle:
452 * @overlay: a #GstVideoOverlay
453 * @x: the horizontal offset of the render area inside the window
454 * @y: the vertical offset of the render area inside the window
455 * @width: the width of the render area inside the window
456 * @height: the height of the render area inside the window
458 * Configure a subregion as a video target within the window set by
459 * gst_video_overlay_set_window_handle(). If this is not used or not supported
460 * the video will fill the area of the window set as the overlay to 100%.
461 * By specifying the rectangle, the video can be overlayed to a specific region
462 * of that window only. After setting the new rectangle one should call
463 * gst_video_overlay_expose() to force a redraw. To unset the region pass -1 for
464 * the @width and @height parameters.
466 * This method is needed for non fullscreen video overlay in UI toolkits that
467 * do not support subwindows.
469 * Returns: %FALSE if not supported by the sink.
474 gst_video_overlay_set_render_rectangle (GstVideoOverlay * overlay,
475 gint x, gint y, gint width, gint height)
477 GstVideoOverlayInterface *iface;
479 g_return_val_if_fail (overlay != NULL, FALSE);
480 g_return_val_if_fail (GST_IS_VIDEO_OVERLAY (overlay), FALSE);
481 g_return_val_if_fail ((width == -1 && height == -1) ||
482 (width > 0 && height > 0), FALSE);
484 iface = GST_VIDEO_OVERLAY_GET_INTERFACE (overlay);
486 if (iface->set_render_rectangle) {
487 iface->set_render_rectangle (overlay, x, y, width, height);
494 * gst_is_video_overlay_prepare_window_handle_message:
495 * @msg: a #GstMessage
497 * Convenience function to check if the given message is a
498 * "prepare-window-handle" message from a #GstVideoOverlay.
502 * Returns: whether @msg is a "prepare-window-handle" message
505 gst_is_video_overlay_prepare_window_handle_message (GstMessage * msg)
507 g_return_val_if_fail (msg != NULL, FALSE);
509 if (GST_MESSAGE_TYPE (msg) != GST_MESSAGE_ELEMENT)
512 return gst_message_has_name (msg, "prepare-window-handle");