distro backend for headless device

[davidvescovi]

I am planning on building a headless embedded device.

I need gstreamer as I will be doing camera capture but I do have a display.

Normally I would use xwayland or frambuffer as a backend but because this is headless I am wondering if one of the other distro's without a windowing backend might be a better choice? What would be a better selection? Do these more "minimal" distros still support gstreamer?

[Bio_TICFSL]

Hello David,

Gstreamer is part of Multimedia plugins package, you need any multimedia backend to star to work with it, or you can have it in core-image-minimal but you will have to add all the resources they need.

Regards

[moose]

This post doesn't really answer my distro question. Do we really need wayland, weston, etc. to run a headless hardware? Could you please specify the recommended distro configuration?