It shaped up to be a pretty good release I think.

The DVR hardware in the setup ouputs four avi files–one for each camera. The first file has the audio encoded in it. Having four files is cumbersome, though. It’s much better to see the camera focused on the users face at the same time as video focused on the users hands, and at the same time as the view that shows the users screen.

That’s where gstreamer comes in. It’s possible to write a pipeline that can take the 4 videos and compose them together into one 4-way split screen.

In Mo’s post she showed an earlier pipeline I came up with, but it was very slow and lacked audio.

I’ve been reading up on gstreamer, searching the internets for example pipelines, etc, and now have a better pipeline. Someone here at the summit asked for me to check it into git, so I did that today in the usability-lab module.