What is GStreamer?
It is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.
GStreamer is a tool in the Image Processing and Management category of a tech stack.
GStreamer is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to GStreamer's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses GStreamer?
Companies
4 companies reportedly use GStreamer in their tech stacks, including Ford Otosan, iCar G3, and Veo Stack.
Developers
40 developers on StackShare have stated that they use GStreamer.
Pros of GStreamer
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Decisions about GStreamer
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose GStreamer in their tech stack.
Ajeesh Sivan
I have a situation to convert the H264 streams into MP4 format using FFMPEG/GStreamer.
However Im stuck with the gst-ugly plugin, now trying my luck with ffmeg. How big are the ffmeg libs and licensing complications?
GStreamer's Features
- Multiplatform
- Comprehensive Core Library
- Intelligent Plugin Architecture
- Broad Coverage of Multimedia Technologies
- Extensive Development Tools
GStreamer Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to GStreamer?
FFMPEG
The universal multimedia toolkit.
OpenCV
OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on real-time applications. Written in optimized C/C++, the library can take advantage of multi-core processing. Enabled with OpenCL, it can take advantage of the hardware acceleration of the underlying heterogeneous compute platform.
WebRTC
It is a free, open project that enables web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple JavaScript APIs. The WebRTC components have been optimized to best serve this purpose.
Cloudinary
Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that streamlines websites and mobile applications' entire image and video management needs - uploads, storage, administration, manipulations, and delivery.
Pillow
It adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. It provides extensive file format support, an efficient internal representation, and fairly powerful image processing capabilities.
