GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.0 Plugins Reference Manual: compositor

## compositor compositor — Composite multiple video streams |

## Properties

GstCompositorBackground | background | Read / Write

## Object Hierarchy

        GObject
        ╰── GInitiallyUnowned
            ╰── GstObject
                ├── GstElement
                │   ╰── GstAggregator
                │       ╰── GstVideoAggregator
                │           ╰── GstCompositor
                ╰── GstPad
                    ╰── GstAggregatorPad
                        ╰── GstVideoAggregatorPad
                            ╰── GstCompositorPad

## Description

Compositor can accept AYUV, ARGB and BGRA video streams. For each of the requested sink pads it will compare the incoming geometry and framerate to define the output parameters. Indeed output video frames will have the geometry of the biggest incoming video stream and the framerate of the fastest incoming one.

Compositor will do colorspace conversion.

Individual parameters for each input stream can be configured on the GstCompositorPad.

### Sample pipelines

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    gst-launch-1.0 \
      videotestsrc pattern=1 ! \
      video/x-raw,format=AYUV,framerate=\(fraction\)10/1,width=100,height=100 ! \
      videobox border-alpha=0 top=-70 bottom=-70 right=-220 ! \
      compositor name=comp sink_0::alpha=0.7 sink_1::alpha=0.5 ! \
      videoconvert ! xvimagesink \
      videotestsrc ! \
      video/x-raw,format=AYUV,framerate=\(fraction\)5/1,width=320,height=240 ! comp.

A pipeline to demonstrate compositor used together with videobox. This should show a 320x240 pixels video test source with some transparency showing the background checker pattern. Another video test source with just the snow pattern of 100x100 pixels is overlayed on top of the first one on the left vertically centered with a small transparency showing the first video test source behind and the checker pattern under it. Note that the framerate of the output video is 10 frames per second.

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    gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc pattern=1 ! \
      video/x-raw, framerate=\(fraction\)10/1, width=100, height=100 ! \
      compositor name=comp ! videoconvert ! ximagesink \
      videotestsrc !  \
      video/x-raw, framerate=\(fraction\)5/1, width=320, height=240 ! comp.

A pipeline to demostrate bgra comping. (This does not demonstrate alpha blending).

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    gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc pattern=1 ! \
      video/x-raw,format =I420, framerate=\(fraction\)10/1, width=100, height=100 ! \
      compositor name=comp ! videoconvert ! ximagesink \
      videotestsrc ! \
      video/x-raw,format=I420, framerate=\(fraction\)5/1, width=320, height=240 ! comp.

A pipeline to test I420

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    gst-launch-1.0 compositor name=comp sink_1::alpha=0.5 sink_1::xpos=50 sink_1::ypos=50 ! \
      videoconvert ! ximagesink \
      videotestsrc pattern=snow timestamp-offset=3000000000 ! \
      "video/x-raw,format=AYUV,width=640,height=480,framerate=(fraction)30/1" ! \
      timeoverlay ! queue2 ! comp. \
      videotestsrc pattern=smpte ! \
      "video/x-raw,format=AYUV,width=800,height=600,framerate=(fraction)10/1" ! \
      timeoverlay ! queue2 ! comp.

A pipeline to demonstrate synchronized compositing (the second stream starts after 3 seconds)

## Synopsis

### Element Information

plugin | compositor
author | Wim Taymans <wim@fluendo.com>, Sebastian Dröge <sebastian.droege@collabora.co.uk>
class | Filter/Editor/Video/Compositor

### Element Pads

name | sink_%u
direction | sink
presence | request
details | video/x-raw, format=(string){ AYUV, BGRA, ARGB, RGBA, ABGR, Y444, Y42B, YUY2, UYVY, YVYU, I420, YV12, NV12, NV21, Y41B, RGB, BGR, xRGB, xBGR, RGBx, BGRx }, width=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], height=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], framerate=(fraction)[ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]

name | src
direction | source
presence | always
details | video/x-raw, format=(string){ AYUV, BGRA, ARGB, RGBA, ABGR, Y444, Y42B, YUY2, UYVY, YVYU, I420, YV12, NV12, NV21, Y41B, RGB, BGR, xRGB, xBGR, RGBx, BGRx }, width=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], height=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], framerate=(fraction)[ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]

## Functions

## Types and Values

## Property Details

### The `“background”` property

      “background”               GstCompositorBackground

Background type.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: Checker pattern