It has a four-core CPU, an independent display card of 2G, a hard disk of 500G and a screen of 15.6 inches.

If you don't know what that core task is, then be prepared to spend a lot of time staring at a blank screen, confused and wondering what to do next.

In Part 2 of this series, we'll look at a program that actually does the core work of building a gstreamer pipeline to get images from the Web camera to the screen or to another system.