We will use Python bindings of GStreamer multimedia framework to process video data. See the installation instructions in Chapter 5, Working with Audios to install GStreamer and other dependencies.
For video processing, we will be using several GStreamer plugins not introduced earlier. Make sure that these plugins are available in your GStreamer installation by running the gst-inspect-0.10 command from the console (gst-inspect-0.10.exe for Windows XP users). Otherwise, you will need to install these plugins or use an alternative if available.
Following is a list of additional plugins we will use in this chapter:
autoconvert: Determines an appropriate converter based on the capabilities. It will be used extensively used throughout this chapter.autovideosink: Automatically selects a video sink to display a streaming video.ffmpegcolorspace: Transforms the color space into a color space format that can be displayed by the video sink.capsfilter: It's the capabilities filter...