Gstreamer for Debian ==================== This package contains the GStreamer plugin distribution. More information can be found at http://gstreamer.net/ As of GStreamer plugins version 0.8.0 all packages are versioned and parallel installable with other releases with other major.minor versions. For example, 0.8.x series is versioned as 0.8 and parallel installable with both unversioned 0.6.x series and future 0.9.x and beyond. The version part is represented as VER below. GStreamer plugins are split into a number of packages: plugins without external dependencies: gstreamerVER-plugins-bad many independent plugins documentation: gstreamerVER-plugins-bad-doc html documentation Notes ===== ChangeLog --------- The upstream ChangeLog is not included in all the plugin packages due to its large size. Please see upstream sources if you are interested in detailed source changes. Unofficial plugin packages -------------------------- Various plugins in the upstream source are not yet packaged or not officially supported. This is most likely due to: * upstream considers them too unstable * libraries they depend on are not are yet in Debian or are poorly supported To build additional unofficial plugin packages: * Get the source and Debian diff (for example, "apt-get source gst-plugins") * Add new package name to the EXTRA_PLUGINS variable in debian/rules * Add appropriate dependency and control info to debian/extra * Add a .install file for the package * Rebuild Currently available untested and unsupported info has been added for: * gstreamer-faac * gstreamer-mpeg2enc External tools support ---------------------- Your favorite codec isn't wrapped as a plugin? External programs can be used to process streams. Take a look at "pipefilter" element or try something like this (untested): $ mkfifo fifo $ gst-launch myaudiosrc ! filesink location=fifo & $ cat fifo | my_encoder > output_file David I. Lehn Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:38:37 -0500 update: Sebastien Bacher Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:00:21 +0100