compositor
Compositor can accept AYUV, VUYA, 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:
- "xpos": The x-coordinate position of the top-left corner of the picture (#gint)
- "ypos": The y-coordinate position of the top-left corner of the picture (#gint)
- "width": The width of the picture; the input will be scaled if necessary (#gint)
- "height": The height of the picture; the input will be scaled if necessary (#gint)
- "alpha": The transparency of the picture; between 0.0 and 1.0. The blending is a simple copy when fully-transparent (0.0) and fully-opaque (1.0). (#gdouble)
- "zorder": The z-order position of the picture in the composition (#guint)
Sample pipelines
 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 overlaid 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.
 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 demonstrate bgra comping. (This does not demonstrate alpha blending).
 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
 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)
Hierarchy
GObject ╰──GInitiallyUnowned ╰──GstObject ╰──GstElement ╰──GstAggregator ╰──GstVideoAggregator ╰──compositor
Implemented interfaces
Factory details
Authors: – Wim Taymans 
Classification: – Filter/Editor/Video/Compositor
Rank – primary + 1
Plugin – compositor
Package – GStreamer Base Plug-ins
Pad Templates
sink_%u
        video/x-raw:
         format: { AYUV64, ARGB64, GBRA_12LE, GBRA_12BE, Y412_LE, Y412_BE, A444_10LE, GBRA_10LE, A444_10BE, GBRA_10BE, A422_10LE, A422_10BE, A420_10LE, A420_10BE, RGB10A2_LE, BGR10A2_LE, Y410, GBRA, ABGR, VUYA, BGRA, AYUV, ARGB, RGBA, A420, Y444_16LE, Y444_16BE, v216, P016_LE, P016_BE, Y444_12LE, GBR_12LE, Y444_12BE, GBR_12BE, I422_12LE, I422_12BE, Y212_LE, Y212_BE, I420_12LE, I420_12BE, P012_LE, P012_BE, Y444_10LE, GBR_10LE, Y444_10BE, GBR_10BE, r210, I422_10LE, I422_10BE, NV16_10LE32, Y210, v210, UYVP, I420_10LE, I420_10BE, P010_10LE, NV12_10LE32, NV12_10LE40, P010_10BE, Y444, GBR, NV24, xBGR, BGRx, xRGB, RGBx, BGR, IYU2, v308, RGB, Y42B, NV61, NV16, VYUY, UYVY, YVYU, YUY2, I420, YV12, NV21, NV12, NV12_64Z32, NV12_4L4, NV12_32L32, Y41B, IYU1, YVU9, YUV9, RGB16, BGR16, RGB15, BGR15, RGB8P, GRAY16_LE, GRAY16_BE, GRAY10_LE32, GRAY8 }
          width: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
         height: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
      framerate: [ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]
src
        video/x-raw:
         format: { AYUV, VUYA, BGRA, ARGB, RGBA, ABGR, Y444, Y42B, YUY2, UYVY, YVYU, I420, YV12, NV12, NV21, Y41B, RGB, BGR, xRGB, xBGR, RGBx, BGRx }
          width: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
         height: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
      framerate: [ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]
Properties
background
“background” GstCompositorBackground *
Background type
Flags : Read / Write
Default value : checker (0)
Named constants
GstCompositorBackground
The different backgrounds compositor can blend over.
Members
checker (0) – Checker pattern
        black (1) – Black
        white (2) – White
        transparent (3) – Transparent Background to enable further compositing
        GstCompositorPad
GObject ╰──GInitiallyUnowned ╰──GstObject ╰──GstPad ╰──GstAggregatorPad ╰──GstVideoAggregatorPad ╰──GstVideoAggregatorConvertPad ╰──GstCompositorPad
The opaque GstCompositorPad structure.
Properties
operator
“operator” GstCompositorOperator *
Blending operator to use for blending this pad over the previous ones
Flags : Read / Write
Default value : over (1)
Named constants
GstCompositorOperator
The different blending operators that can be used by compositor.
See https://www.cairographics.org/operators/ for some explanation and visualizations.
Members
source (0) – Source
        over (1) – Over
        add (2) – Add
        The results of the search are