3 This package contains the GStreamer plugin distribution.
5 More information can be found at http://gstreamer.net/
7 As of GStreamer plugins version 0.8.0 all packages are versioned and
8 parallel installable with other releases with other major.minor
9 versions. For example, 0.8.x series is versioned as 0.8 and parallel
10 installable with both unversioned 0.6.x series and future 0.9.x and
11 beyond. The version part is represented as VER below.
13 GStreamer plugins are split into a number of packages:
15 plugins without external dependencies:
17 gstreamerVER-misc many independent plugins
19 plugins with external dependencies:
25 libraries and library plugins:
27 libgstreamer-plugins-baseVER-# various libs
28 libgstreamer-plugins-baseVER-dev development files for above package
32 gstreamerVER-plugins-base-doc html documentation
36 gstreamerVER-plugins-base-apps small script apps to using gst-launch
45 The upstream ChangeLog is not included in all the plugin packages due to its
46 large size. Please see upstream sources if you are interested in detailed
49 External tools support
50 ----------------------
52 Your favorite codec isn't wrapped as a plugin? External programs can be
53 used to process streams. Take a look at "pipefilter" element or try
54 something like this (untested):
57 $ gst-launch myaudiosrc ! filesink location=fifo &
58 $ cat fifo | my_encoder > output_file
61 David I. Lehn <dlehn@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:38:37 -0500
64 Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org> Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:00:21 +0100