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The Full Story on GStreamer

Posted by michael on from the one-api-to-bind-them-all dept.

JigSaw writes "Gnome's Christian Schaller has written an intro/status document on GStreamer, the next generation multimedia development framework for Unix. Christian explains what it is, why it is important, its use in both the desktop and server side, its use on embedded Linux, Gnome and even KDE. He also discusses its current competition and the plans for the future."

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  1. 100% CPU Usage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting
    My experience with GStreamer on RedHat v9 with Gnome has got me annoyed. Nautilus uses GStreamer to make the thumbnails and when browsing directories I'll often see GKrellM screaming about 100% CPU usage. A quick 'top' almost always reveals the culprit as gst-thumbnail.

    One of my terminal windows looks this:
    killall gst-thumbnail
    killall gst-thumbnail
    killall gst-thumbnail
    killall gst-thumbnail
    killall gst-thumbnail

    KDE has a runaway process killer. Why doesnt gnome?

  2. GSteamer and MPLayer by JarekC · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Recently I read a short but interesting discussion of GStreamer in context of MPlayer, triggered by an announcement of a bonobo component wrapping MPlayer.

    I wonder what will happen when MPlayerG2 comes out from an incubator. Will the two projects simply compete, or will they work out some way to integrate/support each other?

  3. Re:Hmm... by CoolVibe · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Ever saw artsbuilder? Arts (despised and misunderstood by many) also is more than meets the eye.

    You can plug in modules, and synthesise any sound you like though plugins and modules, not unlike the pipeline editor in gstreamer.