Technology

From a technical point of view, the GStreamer framework was designed to make it easy to write applications that handle audio and video, giving the developer the ability of processing any kind of flow. Its main advantages are that the pluggable components can be mixed and matched into arbitrary pipelines so that it’s possible to write a full-fledged video or audio editing application.

From the users’ point of view, this flexibility in the structure gives applications higher capability to playing audio and video files in a much smoother way, saving memory consumption and thus enhancing the user experience. Besides, this plasticity also gives GStreamer the possibility of spanning a very wide variety of formats, including MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, MPEG, AVI, Windows Media, among many others. Basically, a GStreamer application offers the possibility of playing almost any type of multimedia file since it supports all major audio and video formats.

Due to the above mentioned reasons, GStreamer has quickly established itself as the de-facto standard multimedia framework for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems.

If you have further questions regarding this topic or would like to have a more technical approach, we suggest you visit the GStreamer website at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org.