gstreamer has confused me for ages. Is it built on top of ffmpeg or an alternative?
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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GStreamer 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.
It's more of a glue that can connect multiple media things together
It is used to build a pipeline processing audio/video/metadata. You can use some of ffmpeg plugins with it but it is a separate product.