I think gstreamer is a cute hack, but it is also *exactly* what Chris Pirazzi warned against in his "Video I/O on Linux: Lessons Learned from SGI".
Every difficulty with SGI's Video Library mentioned in this article has been overcome by GStreamer (as well as most other Linux-based media frameworks), and is used in working applications. Many of his observations seem rather quaint and outdated.
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I think gstreamer is a cute hack, but it is also *exactly* what Chris Pirazzi warned against in his "Video I/O on Linux: Lessons Learned from SGI".
Every difficulty with SGI's Video Library mentioned in this article has been overcome by GStreamer (as well as most other Linux-based media frameworks), and is used in working applications. Many of his observations seem rather quaint and outdated.
Use swfdec.