Speakertrack working

Gstreamer Uninstalled Script

I was earlier experiencing many problems installing the gstreamer package for running the speakertrack modules. This task was made easy by the gst-uninstalled script (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/plain/scripts/create-uninstalled-setup.sh). I downloaded the script and ran it. This script clones the gstreamer git modules (gstreamer, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-bad, gst-plugins-ugly) into "~/gst/master". I replaced the gst-plugins-bad module by Duzy's one from speakertrack_new branch. The gst-uninstalled script generates a script gst-master at "~/gst". This script is useful in setting the environment variables correctly. These environment variables are needed to install gstreamer in a custom location so that the plugins know where the gstreamer package was installed. Now after doing this I followed the setting up instructions. I built like this:

Doing this builds the gstreamer WITHOUT any build errors. The executables - gst-launch-1.0, gst-inpect-1.0 etc are now located at ~/gst/master/gstreamer/tools/.libs/ or ~/gst/master/gstreamer/tools/ Now, I built the gst-switch in speakertrack branch doing ./autogen and then make and copied the executables from /tools/ - gst-switch-srv, gst-switch-ui and gst-switch-cap to the previous location. Now, running gst-switch-srv and gst-switch-cap worked perfectly with the modules capable of detecting my face :)

The environment variables can also be set using a script like this:

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The Code

I have made some edits.

1. The path of the executables now needs to be specified. This will be set to some default value later.
2. Earlier if the server was running and while testing I get a python exception. Now since server.end() call is made afterwards, the gst-switch-srv would have kept on running in the background. Running "ps -ef | grep gst-switch-srv" will confirm it. Now, there is a function which can be called like server.brute_end(). This should be added to except portion in the test script like this script:

   	from gstswitch import *
   	from time import sleep
   	import subprocess
   	import os
   	# all executables (gst-launch-1.0, gst-switch-srv, gst-switch-ui, gst-switch-cap) at this path
   	path = '/home/hyades/gst/master/gstreamer/tools/.libs/'
   	os.chdir(path)
   	s = Server()
   	s.run() # launches the server default parameters
   	try:
   	sleep(0.5)
   	cmd = path
   	# connects a gstreamer module to view the output of the gst-switch-srv
   	cmd += "gst-launch-1.0 tcpclientsrc port=3001 ! gdpdepay ! autovideosink"
   	proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd.split(), bufsize=-1, shell=False)
   	# adding two test video sources
   	s.new_test_video()
   	s.new_test_video(clockoverlay=True)
   	# waiting till user ends the server
   	raw_input()
   	s.end()
   	except:
   	# to kill off all processes that are created by the program
   	s.brute_end()

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