Python cluttergst

Since clutter 1.0, clutter-gst is available as a separate module. So I guess the developers of pyclutter module also decided to branch out python bindings for clutter-gst. Lot of the Linux media centers out there use pyclutter and this branching has almost halted their development. So here's a short how-to about building pyclutter-gst till a stable release package is available.

1. sudo apt-get install automake git
2. git clone git://git.clutter-project.org/bindings/pyclutter-gst
3. cd pyclutter-gst
4. ./autogen.sh
5. make
6. sudo make install
7. After this you should be able to use cluttergst in your python program. Here's a python program to test cluttergst.

import sys

import cluttergst

import clutter, gst

def main (args):

stage = clutter.Stage()

stage.set_size(320,240)

stage.set_color(clutter.color_from_string('DarkSlateGrey'))

stage.connect('destroy', clutter.main_quit)

stage.connect('key-press-event', clutter.main_quit)

# Creates a gstreamer texture

tx = cluttergst.VideoTexture()

movfile = "file:///dhuan.flv" # Location of movie file

tx.set_uri(movfile)

tx.set_position(90,100)

tx.set_playing(True)

stage.add(tx)

stage.show_all()

clutter.main()

return 0

if __name__ == '__main__':

sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))

*Note: JHbuild is the recommended way of building pyclutter modules. But it didn't work for me.