Difference between revisions of "GStreamer"

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What is GStreamer

GStreamer supports a wide variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing. The pipeline design serves as a base to create many types of multimedia applications such as video editors, transcoders, streaming media broadcasters and media players.

It is designed to work on a variety of operating systems, e.g. Linux kernel-based operating systems (like Enigma2), the BSDs, OpenSolaris, Android, macOS, iOS, Windows, OS/400.

GStreamer is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)[5] and is being hosted at freedesktop.org.

OpenPLi and GStreamer

GStreamer is native in OpenPLi meaning it's already in there when you installed OpenPLi and when you view a recording you will be using it. A setopbox is not a media player, so you can use it as a media player, but there can be problems. It's is always recommended to mux subtitles into the container. To mux means to combine different things (like a video stream, audio stream, or subtitle) into a single container media format, like MKV, AVI, etc. When you have muxed subs, that means the subtitles were externally added to the media container you have.

OpenPLi and GStreamer versions

OpenPLi 4 with GStreamer 0.10.x

OpenPLi 5 with GSstreamer 1.x