GStreamer Technologies

GStreamer 1.x Technologies

GStreamer Release Updates

Overview of available plug-ins

GStreamer community packages

• GStreamer core : This also called as GStreamer Core 1.0 (1.8.0)

• gst-plugins-base : contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins.

• gst-plugins-good  : contains a set of plug-ins that we consider to have good quality code, correct functionality.

• gst-plugins-ugly : contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for distributors.

• gst-plugins-bad : contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the rigorous quality testing we expect.

• gst-libav : The GStreamer Libav package contains GStreamer plugins for Libav (a fork of FFmpeg).

• gst-rtsp-server : RTSP server library based on GStreamer

• gst-python : GStreamer python overrides for the gobject-introspection-based pygst bindings.

• gst-editing-services : Library for creating audio/video editors.

• gst-validate : Tool to test GStreamer components.

• gstreamer-sharp : GStreamer C# bindings.

• gst-omx : OpenMax-based decoder and encoder elements for GStreamer. Replaces gst-openmax.

• gst-openmax

• gst-dsp

• orc : Library and set of tools for compiling and executing SIMD assembly language-like programs that operate on arrays of data.

• cerbero : Build system to build GStreamer and all dependencies from source and create binary packages for Windows, Android, OS/X and iOS

• qt-gstreamer : QtGStreamer is a set of libraries providing C++ bindings for GStreamer with a Qt-style API, plus some helper classes and elements for integrating GStreamer better in Qt applications.

• gst-streaming-server : Streaming server based on GStreamer.

• gnonlin : GNonLin contains a set of plug-ins for GStreamer to ease the creation of multimedia editors, or any other application where a timeline-oriented use of GStreamer makes sense.

GStreamer core and plugins source

• GStreamer Core and Plugins Source - Freedesktop.org

GStreamer plugin writers guide

• GStreamer Plugin Writers Guide (1.8.0) - pdf version
• GStreamer Plugin Writers Guide (1.8.0) - html version

GStreamer 0.10 Technologies

• GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in : GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in contains one plugin with a set of elements using the FFmpeg library code. It contains most popular decoders as well as very fast colorspace conversion elements.

List of changes between GStreamer 0.10 and GStreamer 1.0

• List of changes : Porting 0.10 applications to 1.0
• GStreamer 0.10 to 1.0 porting guide : Porting guide

GStreamer Manuals

• GStreamer 1.8.0 Application Development Manual

• GStreamer 1.0 (1.8.0) Core Reference Manual

• GStreamer 1.0 (1.8.0) Library Reference Manual

• GStreamer Base Plugins 1.0 (1.8.0) Library Reference Manual

• GStreamer Core Plugins 1.0 (1.8.0) Plugins Reference Manual

• GStreamer Good Plugins 1.0 (1.8.0) Plugins Reference Manual

• GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.0 (1.8.0) Plugins Reference Manual

• GStreamer Ugly Plugins 1.0 (1.8.0) Plugins Reference Manual

• GStreamer 0.10 Core Reference Manual

• GStreamer 0.10 Library Reference Manual

• GStreamer Core Plugins 0.10 Plugins Reference Manual

• GStreamer Good Plugins 0.10 Plugins Reference Manual

• GStreamer Bad Plugins 0.10 Plugins Reference Manual

• GStreamer Ugly Plugins 0.10 Plugins Reference Manual

Note: Difference between GStreamer 0.10 Library Reference Manual and GStreamer 0.10 Core Reference Manual is core part is for the core library. The library manaual is for extra libraries (e.g. also containing helper for unit tests, element base classes). Using the extra libraries is not strictly needed, thus the split.

GStreamer FAQ

• GStreamer FAQ (1.8.0) - Freedesktop.org

References

• GStreamer 1.0 Ubuntu Wiki
• gstreamer1.0 package in Ubuntu