GStreamer FFmpeg Plug-in 0.10.2

GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in contains one plugin with a set of elements that use the FFmpeg library code. It contains most popular decoders as well as very fast colorspace conversion elements.
GStreamer is a library that allows the construction of graphs of media-handling components, ranging from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.
Applications can take advantage of advances in codec and filter technology transparently. Developers can add new codecs and filters by writing a simple plugin with a clean, generic interface.
GStreamer is released under the LGPL.
Main features:
Multiplatform
- GStreamer has been ported to a wide range of operating systems, processors and compilers. This include but are not limited to Linux on i86,PPC, ARM using GCC. Solaris on x86 and SPARC using both GCC and Forte, MacOSX, Microsoft Windows using MS Visual Developer and IBM OS/400.
Comprehensive Core Library
- Graph-based structure allows arbitrary pipeline construction
- Based on GLib 2.0 object model for object-oriented design and inheritance
- Small core library of less than 150KB, about 10 K lines of code
- Pluggable scheduling system capable of dealing with most pipeline structures
- Multi-threaded pipelines are trivial and transparent to construct
- Clean and simple API for both plugin and application developers
- Extremely lightweight data passing means very high performance/low latency
- Complete debugging system for both core and plugin/app developers
- Clocking to ensure global inter-stream synchronization
Intelligent Plugin Architecture
- Dynamically loaded plugins provide elements and media types, demand-loaded via an XML registry, similar to ld.so.cache
- Element interface handles all known types of sources, filters, sinks
- Capabilities system allows verification of element compatibility using MIME types and media-specific properties
- Autoplugging uses capabilities system to complete complex paths automatically
- Pipelines can be saved to XML and loaded back to working state
- Resource friendly plugins dont waste RAM
Extensive Development Tools
- Graphical editor allows pipelines to be built quickly, run, and saved as XML
- gst-launch command-line tool enables even quicker prototyping and testing, similar to ecasound
- All tools written as libraries to allow easy reuse
- A lot of documentation, including partially completed manual and plugin writers guide
- Large selection of test programs and example code
- Access to GStreamer API with various programming language