MouseTrap Dev Help/gstreamer

Motivation

OpenCV has not been ported to Python3. We need a Python3 library for getting images from a webcam. Gstreamer might work.

Good Vibrations

Gstreamer 1.0 works in Python3 and is based on GTK3.

Status

• Web cam example
  • [DONE] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jderose/+junk/gst-examples/view/head:/webcam-1.0
• Need to figure out how to capture a single image.
  • [TODO] [post link to working code]
• Need to figure out how to process single image to find points of interest (this may require a different API, such as NumPy from SciPy)
  • [TODO] [post link to working code]

References

• Gstreamer home: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/
• Documentation and examples: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Novacut/GStreamer1.0