GStreamer Plugins Bad 0.10.1 review

GStreamer is a library that allows the construction of graphs of media-handling components, ranging from simple Vorbis and Ogg playba

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) File size: 940K Developer: Wim Taymans

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GStreamer is a library that allows the construction of graphs of media-handling components, ranging from simple Vorbis and Ogg playback to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.

Applications can take advantage of advances in codec and filter technology transparently. Developers can add new codecs and filters by writing a simple plugin with a clean, generic interface.

Here are some key features of "GStreamer Plugins Good":
Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
Threadsafe design and API
new id3 demuxer (replaces the mad one in gst-plugins-ugly)
memleak fixes in avidemux, wavparse, level, smoke
ports of multipart,
fixes in flacdec, flxdec, rtp
documentation updates on videomixer
added new sunaudiosink, gconfaudiosrc and gconfvideosrc elements

What's New in This Release:
This release features lots of fixes for the QT/MOV demuxer, including restoring the ability to play Web streams.
More codecs are supported.
AAC decoder fixes and MMS source fixes were done.
The directFB plugin was updated.
New plugins include swfdec, XVid, dtsdec, glimagesink, and libneon http source filter.