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-misc many independent plugins plugins with external dependencies: gstreamerVER-alsa gstreamerVER-gnomevfs gstreamerVER-x libraries and library plugins: libgstreamer-plugins-baseVER-# various libs libgstreamer-plugins-baseVER-dev development files for above package documentation: gstreamerVER-plugins-base-doc html documentation applications: gstreamerVER-plugins-base-apps small script apps to using gst-launch 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. 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