GStreamer-0.6.2

Introduction to GStreamer

The GStreamer package contains a framework for streaming media. This is useful for interfacing with binary CODECs.

Package information

GStreamer dependencies

Installation of GStreamer

Install GStreamer by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=$GNOME_PREFIX --localstatedir=/var/lib  &&
make &&
make install &&
gst-register 

Command explanations

--localstatedir=/var/lib: This switch puts gst-register's cache in /var/lib/cache instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/var/cache.

Contents

The GStreamer package contains libgstreamer libraries and libgst libraries.